In Wood River under the smoky skies, the sunshine was reduced as it passed through the yellow-brownish haze. A view from Alton shows the prairie smoke blowing across the Mississippi River behind the ...

Prairie Smoke have banded together to restore prairie land, including Ed and Cindi Pfannkoch, who own about 100 acres along the North Branch Root River northwest of Chatfield. Ed Pfannkoch stands in ...

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.

Many visitors may have noticed some changes to the Nature Area earlier this spring. Some of you may have thought, “What have they done now?” as you hiked through the charred and blackened remains of ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 1, 2025. Click here for that audio. The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even ...