On a recent weekday, short but mighty flames began consuming an expanse of tallgrass in Nachusa Grasslands, their advance marked with crackles and pops. Satisfied with the blaze, a group of eight ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center is celebrating 25 years in Lancaster County. The area is made up of hundreds of acres of protected grasslands. Now, they’re adding 310 ...

“Perhaps the most glorious time of the year for us is spring, when Mother Nature awakens the prairie and life begins anew.” So writes Larry Munson, who knows about the prairie; he lives in New ...

More than 10,000 plants were made available to an estimated 1,000 visitors to Saturday’s annual Spring Plant Sale and Farm Festival at Liberty Prairie in Grayslake. “It’s just been my tradition,” said ...

Outdoors writer from Appleton, Minn., and author of several guidebooks, including "60 Hikes Within 60 Miles of Minneapolis and St. Paul" Having spent many adventures in both the Boundary Waters Canoe ...

The closest opportunity to the Grand Forks area is Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge in Polk County, where four blinds for viewing prairie chickens on their booming grounds are a perennially ...