Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, in the Kansas Flint Hills, protects one of the largest remaining sections of the prairie that once stretched from Canada to Mexico. Prairies used to stretch ...

At one time, Missouri had approximately 15 million acres of prairie, which have have some of the richest soils on Earth and are important habitat for wildlife. A parcel of land southeast of ...

Wildlife as big as bison and as small as quail share thousands of prairie acres with wildflowers and tall native grass at Prairie State Park in southwestern Missouri. The 4,000-acre state park ...

LOCKWOOD, Mo. — The Missouri Prairie Foundation’s 14th annual Prairie BioBlitz and National Prairie Day will be held June 7-8 at Coyne Prairie near Lockwood. One of the weekend's events will ...

One of the most important tools for agriculture in Missouri is almost gone: prairie. Once covering 15 million acres of our state, today we have fewer than 45,000 intact acres — less than one ...

A Texas County couple received recognition Aug. 17 during the Missouri Prairie Foundation’s annual dinner in Columbia. Elk Creek’s Amy Hamilton and her late husband, Rex, were honored with the ...