Siobhan Solkowski-Peacy, of the education department at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, teaches a group of students in the Mighty Acorns program. The entire education department was terminated ...

The Wetlands Initiative Share It’s so wasteful. The chaos emanating from Washington, D.C., splattered Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, the Chicago area’s biggest wild space, in the last two ...

WILMINGTON, Ill. — The entire educational staff at Midewin National Prairie was recently terminated amid the federal government’s cost-saving effort. Siobhan Peacy was working for Midewin for ...

News from around the Southland includes items from Mount Greenwood, Wilmington, Frankfort, School District 230 and South Holland.

Illinois Beach State Park is a bit like someone took Big Marsh Park, Montrose Beach, and Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and mashed them together like an early-2000s RJD2 banger. Located just ...

Another bison herd was placed in Illinois to help restore the native tallgrass prairie ecosystem in that part of the state. In 2015, 27 bison were transferred to the Midewin National Tallgrass ...

This winter had been a favorable one — weather-wise — for Homer Tree Care, a contractor doing the heavy lifting at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County, where an ambitious 1,300-acre ...

A 1,300-acre restoration project at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie has ground to a halt after federal grant funds, awarded in 2023, were frozen by the Trump Administration. Tens of thousands of ...

He learned to restore native habitats and manage invasive species while working for Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, and The Nature Conservancy Ohio. He ...