On this edition of Manager’s Special from Siouxland Public Media, host Mark Munger invites listeners along on a walk through a living prairie on the campus of Western Iowa Tech Community College.

A monarch butterfly forages on an ironweed flower in the native lawn of Karen Rawson in the front yard of her home in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, September 9, 2024. Rawson began replacing ...

FOSTORIA, Iowa -- The old prairie is back. A new business in Northwest Iowa will sell you what you need to start your own piece of native Iowa prairie. They'll even start it for you. "We planted 600 ...

A pocket prairie is a small garden in a landscape that includes native prairie grasses and wildflowers. Folks in a suburban or urban setting can have a natural area in their yard while providing ...

Loved for its relaxed, informal and romantic style, prairie planting seeks to replicate the American prairies of the Midwest. Using native species and minimal human input, prairie gardens continue to ...

Two hundred years ago, nearly two-thirds of Illinois was covered in prairie. Today, less than 0.01% of that prairie land remains. The rest has been lost to agricultural development, urbanization and ...