Iowa Public Radio

Iowa's prairies have roots across the state, including in some prisons

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 ...
Iowa Public Radio

Iowa's largest prairie restoration project was built from the ground up — and it's still growing

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 ...
news.iastate.edu

Prairie STRIPS program expands with new grant

AMES, Iowa – A recently awarded federal grant will help an innovative Iowa State University program expand its mission to protect soil and water quality by planting strips of native prairie on ...
Des Moines Register

Prairie helps the environment. So why does Iowa couple face resistance in bid to surround homes with it?

Picture a typical suburban neighborhood, but trade out the streetlights for night sky, storm sewers for rain gardens and manicured lawns for restored Iowa prairie. That's what Larry Ladd and Shirley ...