School may have been out this week, but the learning continued for children at the Flint Hills Discovery Center. During the ...

Scientists checked in on species all over the country for the latest State of the Birds report. Nearly everywhere they looked, birds were struggling—including some that have been resilient in ...

Areas managed by the U.S. Forest Service have also been affected; in Will County, a dozen staff members were fired at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie. “The way that it’s happened ...

Siobhan Solkowski-Peacy, of the education department at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, teaches a group of students in the Mighty Acorns program. The entire education department was terminated ...

The Hempstead Plains Preserve is an endangered tallgrass prairie that spans 17-acres. It's the largest of its kind in the ...

Grasslands Heritage Foundation (GHF) and Native Lands Restoration Collaborative (NLRC) are two nonprofits that offer hands-on learning experiences and are always in need of volunteers. Both ...

WILMINGTON, Ill. — The entire educational staff at Midewin National Prairie was recently terminated amid the federal government’s cost-saving effort. Siobhan Peacy was working for Midewin for ...

The Wetlands Initiative Share It’s so wasteful. The chaos emanating from Washington, D.C., splattered Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, the Chicago area’s biggest wild space, in the last two ...

Though it's primarily known as a college town, this Kansas-based destination sports plenty of arts and culture, including a ...