McLean Nature Preserve Tall Grass Prairie Walk will take place at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24. Participants will get the chance to experience the kind of prairies that the American settlers encountered ...

In Illinois, our historic grasses have been tallgrass prairie species. These include big bluestem, yellow Indian grass and switchgrass. It would make sense that a person wishing to include native ...

Across the Great Plains, including Texas, there are a gradient of physical conditions going from west to east as you cross the shortgrass prairie through the mixed grass prairie to the tall grass ...

The remote interior of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is a land where the prairie rises to meet the sky in an unbroken line that stretches as far as the eye can see. It’s a quiet place, where the ...

In a region known for its hill and forests, vast tracts of prairie dot the Ozarks landscape. Flat acres of grassland, nearly devoid of trees, are found in Northwest Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma and ...

The cover of "Sea of Grass" and authors Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Chris Bentley/Here & Now) Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 1, 2025.