Healthy prairie community with grey-headed coneflower and bee balm. (Photo by Liz Koziol) The North American prairie once covered 170 million acres, making it the largest ecosystem on the continent, ...

The restored prairie land near the Robert Hall Pearson house at Black Jack Battlefield and Nature Park is pictured Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. The groups behind that restoration project will next set ...

Pollinators recognize a good thing when they see it — and so do gardeners in search of organic pest control. As one put it, “My prairie is my pesticide.” By Margaret Roach The first time I met Neil ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. In a world where environmental disasters make headlines, we need to applaud the efforts of the secondary ...

Late summer is a splendid time of year to go prospecting for native prairie plants that might bring beauty and wildlife habitat to your garden. “Plants that are native to the prairie are in their ...

The first time I met Neil Diboll, he set his front yard on fire. On purpose. It was part of a lesson that Diboll, a prairie ecologist and nurseryman, was eager to share about native plant communities.

Late summer is the time of glory for prairie plants: Grasses are golden, sunflowers are yellow, coneflowers are pink. It’s the loveliest time to visit a place such as the Schulenberg Prairie at The ...

Gardeners across the country are flocking to climate-resilient native plants as concerns about extreme heat, flooding, and ...

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GRAND FORKS – It was chilly for an August morning, and a few raindrops fell lazily from the overcast sky and carved divots in the soil, but the grade school students crouched in the dirt around the ...