In late 2023, Openlands received a $1.5 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to bring back a dozen bird species through the restoration of over 1,300 acres of prairie ...

Fr. Carlos Saligumba, pastor of Christ the King Church in Wonder Lake, Ill., poses with John Shiel and Dave Zeiger at a sign for the St. Francis prairie restoration project, which was 22 years in ...

Armstrong says Illinois’ moniker is “the Prairie State,” but there’s actually little prairie left. He says the students are helping to restore the area to what it was like in pre ...

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you're picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, ...

Reestablishing Illinois Prairie Land: Ongoing Tallgrass Prairie Restoration at Charlotte Codo Prairie (Joliet): This project will fund the transformation of 17 acres of agricultural land into a ...

Beginning at 8 a.m., the restoration effort on the property owned by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources began, led by Oswegoland Park District restoration technician Samuel Kilgore of ...

There's an effort to transition degraded land back to tallgrass prairies. But how do these transitions affect the overall health of the land?

In Illinois, a hot summer sprint to perform IVF on fringed orchids It’s a narrow window: ... Bison, in their eating habits, are unwitting partners in the prairie restoration.

Today, the tallgrass prairie, which covered most of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota ... How do you see large-scale prairie restoration as a means of reparations? DM: We write about the bison herds out West ...

Illinois, the Prairie State, was once dominated by 22 million acres of grasslands, home to an almost unimaginable diversity of plants and animals. But now, only one-ten-thousandth of the state’s ...