In Iowa they call it “black gold” – a fertile blanket covering the landlocked Midwestern state. Thousands of years of prairie grass growth, death and decomposition have left a thick layer of ...

Should prairie grass be replanted along Sunset Drive and Juergens Drive? That was the question Jordan City Council members debated on Tuesday, Sept. 6. According to Public Works Director Steve ...

Essig, the artist, says the frontispiece of a rancher riding among the prairie grass is an invitation to come, explore and see this natural habitat. She hopes that the large format of images will ...

gold and blue. Almost all of these grasses and flowers occur farther east on patches of native prairie scattered across the plains, but here they grow much higher and in breathtaking profusion.