IPR's Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe speaks with Jim Pease, Pauline Drobney and Pete Eyheralde at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge on Earth Day in front of an audience. Land that was once ...

The University of Northern Iowa’s Tallgrass Prairie Center (TPC) is set to kick off its spring 2026 seminar series focusing on restoration and management of prairies. Free and open to the public ...

When Cathy Irvine's husband died, she was left with hundreds of acres of land and no children to leave it to. With a love of conservation she shared with her husband, she decided to donate 77 acres to ...

Centuries ago, before Iowa's rich, black soil was converted into some of the world's most productive farmland, the state was mostly covered in tallgrass prairie and flowering plants known as forbs.

BETTENDORF, Iowa (KWQC) - Students at Bettendorf Middle School completed phase one of the project to restore a prairie where the City of Bettendorf is turning floodplain homes into green spaces. They ...

BETTENDORF, Iowa (KWQC) - Students at Bettendorf Middle School had a very special day. “I felt really proud of this project when we came here today, and we saw that after winter, all the stuff that we ...

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site will kick off National Park Week with a spring restoration project in the 81-acre tallgrass prairie. Volunteers are needed on Saturday, April 18 to help remove ...

Justin Pippert, a friend of Cathy Irvine, who donated farmland to the Tallgrass Prairie Center, during a dedication ceremony on Friday at her late husband's family farm in Dysart. Irvine donated 77 ...

Kathy Irvine, who donated 77 acres of land to the Tallgrass Prairie Center at the University of Northern Iowa, watches on during a dedication ceremony on Friday, June 9, 2023, at Cathy Irvine's late ...

DECORAH, IOWA—One hot sunny May morning, senior Josie Meyer and a few friends were out on Luther College’s Jewell Prairie with a truck full of seedlings and a water tank. It was the last stage of ...