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The wallpaper, the creaky floors ... The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie offers something uniquely moving – the same untouched tallgrass prairie landscape that inspired her most famous works. Standing ...
The home has been meticulously preserved to appear as it did during Cather’s time there, right down to the wallpaper patterns and furnishings ... Walking the mowed trails through this tallgrass ...
There’s over 8,000 acres of rolling tall grass plains, oak savannah’s ... You’ll find protected ancient redwood groves, open prairie lands, two major rivers, and 37 miles (60 km) of pristine ...
OSAGE COUNTY, Okla. — Tallgrass Prairie Reserve is celebrating the first bison calf of the year. On Monday, the Oklahoma Nature Conservancy announced and released photos of the calf.
Rick Short, USDA Forest Service, Midewin NTP Share Bizarre terminations of staff coupled with freezing of signed contracts for ongoing restoration work at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie by the ...
The prairie fires, usually in March and April, are used to manage the tallgrass prairie, but the resulting smoke can affect air quality. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment recently ...
You could think of it as spring cleaning. The tallgrass prairie ecosystem historically covered much of western and southern Minnesota, and evolved over eons. In addition to interactions with ...
Most people living in the Midwest today likely have never seen a real prairie because so few remain. At the time of European settlement, tallgrass prairie covered 80-85% of what is now Iowa and ...
COLUMBIA — The Missouri Prairie Foundation held a native plant sale at the MU Bradford Research Center on Saturday. Vendors sold varieties of native plants such as wildflowers, grasses, shrubs ...
Each year, prescribed burns are conducted to preserve the Tallgrass Prairie, prevent the spread of invasive species, and provide better foliage for cattle. Smoke from the burns can affect air ...
According to the Flint Hills Discovery Center, only four percent of the original tallgrass prairie ecosystem is still intact; ...