On the western edge, in Colorado, is the shortgrass prairie. Prairies were once dominant from Ontario south to Texas, and from Colorado and Montana east to Indiana. In Minnesota, tallgrass prairies ...

From the shores of Indiana Dunes National Park you can ... an hour’s drive from downtown Chicago, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie offers a quick escape into nature with 18,225 acres of ...

Indian Grass is very common in Illinois, occurring in all 102 counties. It is one of the three dominant prairie grasses iconic of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Besides prairies, you can find it in ...

Try to envision an ecosystem in peril and you might conjure images of the Amazon rainforest or the Great Barrier Reef. But right here in North America you'll find one of the rarest and most ...