A worker at North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City feeds combine-harvested prairie seed into an auger. Since 2000, a small team at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has been ...

For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at sunrise to watch the unique courtship dance of the prairie chicken, whose population in Iowa has been ...

Centuries ago, before Iowa's rich, black soil was converted into some of the world's most productive farmland, the state was mostly covered in tallgrass prairie and flowering plants known as forbs.

Iowa and its economy are, quite literally, eroding. The state’s rich topsoil, which is the key to making this some of the best and most productive farmland in the world, is disappearing. It was once ...