Centuries ago, before Iowa's rich, black soil was converted into some of the world's most productive farmland, the state was mostly covered in tallgrass prairie and flowering plants known as forbs.

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 ...

When Cathy Irvine's husband died, she was left with hundreds of acres of land and no children to leave it to. With a love of conservation she shared with her husband, she decided to donate 77 acres to ...

Cathy Irvine, who donated 77 acres of land to the Tallgrass Prairie Center at the University of Northern Iowa, watches during a dedication ceremony June 9, 2023, at her late husband's family farm near ...

We often equate cutting-edge science with cutting-edge technology. But sometimes the most innovative solutions to our problems aren't earth-shattering discoveries. Sometimes, they're as old as dirt - ...

During last year’s BioBlitz at the University of Iowa’s eight-acre prairie restoration project — the Ashton Prairie Living ...

DECORAH, IOWA—One hot sunny May morning, senior Josie Meyer and a few friends were out on Luther College’s Jewell Prairie with a truck full of seedlings and a water tank. It was the last stage of ...