A worker at North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City feeds combine-harvested prairie seed into an auger. Since 2000, a small team at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has been ...

IPR's Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe speaks with Jim Pease, Pauline Drobney and Pete Eyheralde at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge on Earth Day in front of an audience. Land that was once ...

OXFORD JUNCTION — Bluestem grass sways in a gentle breeze, interspersed between swathes of yellow black-eyed Susans, as bird and cricket song fills the air. Pheasant chicks run in the underbrush, ...

Efforts to save the Topeka shiner have restored hundreds of oxbow lakes across Iowa. Now, those wetlands are helping to ...

In April, the Iowa City Council approved a contract to restore approximately 86 acres of prairie across 18 city-owned sites. The $244,019 contract with Ecological Services, Inc. came to council right ...

WRIGHT COUNTY, Iowa — There's a wild presence in Tim Smith's corn and soybean field that most farmers kill on sight. Smith made his way toward it, hoisting his long legs over row after row of soybean ...

Iowa and its economy are, quite literally, eroding. The state’s rich topsoil, which is the key to making this some of the best and most productive farmland in the world, is disappearing. It was once ...

A greater prairie chicken during its courtship at the Kellerton lek. (Photo by Lowell Washburn/DNR) For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at ...

Prairie Lights in Iowa City represents the very best of the increasingly rare independent, brick-and-mortar bookstores. These vital places offer an experience that exclusively online retailers cannot: ...

Prairie (3-3) led by as many as six points in the first half at 23-17, but Ankeny closed strong with a 13-6 surge and claimed ...