A cold snap on the prairie last winter proved particularly devastating at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmington, when a poorly performing heating system led to burst pipes and other damage.
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 ...
On a recent weekday, short but mighty flames began consuming an expanse of tallgrass in Nachusa Grasslands, their advance marked with crackles and pops. Satisfied with the blaze, a group of eight ...
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 ...
CEDAR FALLS — A restored prairie site will triple in size after more land was given to the University of Northern Iowa.
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Papers presented at a two-day session at the Society for Ecological Restoration's Second Annual Conference in Chicago, 1990, and prepared for the 12th North American Prairie Conference, held at the ...
The largest prairie restoration in U.S. history marks another milestone today when The Nature Conservancy transfers the final parcel of its Glacial Ridge Project in Polk County to the U.S. Fish and ...
1. Ecosystem restoration is an important tool for mitigating biodiversity loss and recovering critical ecosystem services to humanity, but restoration rarely takes into account the evolutionary ...
POLK COUNTY, Minn. – When Tim Cowdery – a now-retired hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey – published a report in 2019 highlighting more than a decade of research at Glacial Ridge National ...
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