Burning it down, to build it back up, students at one local school spent Wednesday burning down the school's prairie with hopes of rejuvenating it. "I used to teach biology and environmental science ...
About 15 years ago, Flint Hills rancher Bill Sproul was given an oak sapling, sprouted from an acorn dropped beneath the tree ...
Illinois, nicknamed the Prairie State by early settlers, was once dominated by a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Prairies are characterized by deep, fertile soils that are the result of thousands of ...