habitat restoration

Canada geese, white-tailed deer, wild turkey - these are all species that were once rare in Iowa, but now are seemingly everywhere.

Carol Roh Spaulding discusses her award-winning short story collection, plus a look at Iowa's annual prairie chicken festival

Host Charity Nebbe and wildlife biologist Jim Pease observe the prairie chicken mating dance and discuss the species' precarious situation in Iowa on this encore episode.

Tall grass prairie once covered about 85% of the land we now know as Iowa. It now makes up less than one-tenth of a percent.

Land that was once purchased for a nuclear power plant is now 6,000 acres of restored prairie at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Jasper County. One day, it hopes to reach 8,650 acres.

Prairie chickens, a native species to parts of the Midwest and the Great Plains, were extirpated from the state through habitat destruction and hunting. The species was reintroduced in the 1980s with varying levels of success. There are now fewer than 100 wild prairie chickens living in the state.

Host Charity Nebbe and wildlife biologist Jim Pease observe the prairie chicken mating dance and discuss the species’ precarious situation in Iowa.

An Iowa woman is using art — and TikTok — to spread awareness of endangered and lesser-known species in Iowa.

A new report by the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium shows the state has established more than 430,000 acres of habitat for monarch butterflies.

Iowa is one of the most biologically altered states in the nation — with nearly all of its natural habitat razed. Some people are looking at how they can resurrect the natural land and the wildlife it has lost.