In this installment of Curious Iowa, a Gazette series that answers readers’ questions about our state and its culture, we look at parts of Iowa’s history to understand why its landscape looks how it ...

Farmers in the heartland are restoring swaths of the prairie with government help. The aim is to reduce nutrient runoff from ...

Between two corn fields in central Iowa, Lee Tesdell walks through a corridor of native prairie grasses and wildflowers. Crickets trill as dickcissels, small brown birds with yellow chests ...

Johnson County community members got hands-on with wildlife Sunday in the first-ever “Wings and Wild Things Festival.” Taking ...

Each year, states across the Midwest spend millions of dollars to reduce and control invasive Asian carp – which includes ...

Beloved by some, scorned by others, this yellow-flowered weed can be difficult to eradicate. Read on to learn how to rid your ...

The Gazette spoke with Iowa experts about their butterfly ... foot by 10-foot space that you can pack full of native grasses and flowering plants, then that’s better than nothing.” ...

In 2021, Haslett-Marroquin’s nonprofit, Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, purchased a poultry slaughterhouse just south of the Minnesota border in Stacyville, Iowa, where farms in the Tree ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder made generations of readers fall in love with the homestead fantasy in “Little House on the Prairie.” At ...

Cheatgrass and other invasive plants can disrupt Utah’s natural landscapes ... It can start growing earlier in the season than native grasses, so it gets a head start while the weather is still cold.

As the climate changes, genetic engineering will be essential for growing food. But is it creating a race of superweeds?