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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Riparian restoration area in front of the west entrance to J.B. Hunt Park Wednesday, May 21, 2025 in Springdale. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/ANTHONY REYES) Let us read it for you.