It’s just before dawn in Southwest Missouri, and the outermost rays of the sun are just starting to reach across a dazzling array of wildflowers carpeting the shallow valley that runs along County ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 21—SARCOXIE, Mo. — With purple blazing star swaying in the summer breeze on a recent morning, Jerod Huebner scouted the 68 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 5—The Missouri Prairie Foundation's 13th annual Prairie BioBlitz will be held June 1-2 at Shelton L. Cook Memorial Meadow in ...

Missouri Prairie Foundation Executive Director Carol Davit and MPF Director of Prairie Management Jerod Huebner examine the Noah Brown Prairie. Globe file Wild bergamots (left) grow among black-eyed ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Missouri Prairie Foundation hosted a native plant sale on Saturday at Mother’s Brewing Company. The purpose of the sale was to help protect and restore the state’s prairie and ...

Jefferson City, Mo. — The public is invited to take part in celebrating the Missouri Prairie Foundation’s (MPF’s) 60th anniversary by participating in a juried photo contest running now through June ...

COLUMBIA — The Missouri Prairie Foundation held a native plant sale at the MU Bradford Research Center on Saturday. Vendors sold varieties of native plants such as wildflowers, grasses, shrubs, trees ...

Bonnie Teel inherited a landscape that many would call boring. Hardly any shade, for one thing. But Teel plans to spend much time and money in retirement to keep more than 600 acres of virgin ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - Jerod Huebner stepped through the tree line along Lark Road, past the sassafras and other trees that had taken hold, and in doing so stepped back in time. On the far side, Huebner ...