Learn about native plants and take some seeds and seedlings home for transplanting at MDC’s Go Native event April 23 at the Gorman Discovery Center in Kansas City. Blooms can include blazing star (shown), columbine, and coneflowers.
An obscure species of wild grass contains “blockbuster” disease resistance that can be cross bred into wheat to give immunity against one of the deadliest crop pathogens.
From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and ancient horses, went extinct.
Changes in landscaping regulations for new Colorado Springs developments are on the horizon, the latest effort to curtail the use of water-thirsty lawns as drought continues to grip the West