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 ...

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 ...

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 ...