Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa — The rolling hills and grasses of Iowa’s prairies were almost lost to the sands of time. “The prairie… is Iowa's heritage," one of the refuge volunteers said. The Neal Smith ...

Iowa was once 70 percent natural tallgrass prairie, housing native plant species like purple coneflower, butterfly milkweed, and big bluestem. Today, however, less than 0.1 percent of those prairies ...