Dec 7th, 2006 · Scientists at the University of Minnesota say you can make great biofuel from a mix of 16 kinds of prairie grass. And there's a bonus: prairie grasses suck carbon out of the air but don't return it when you burn it.
Dec 6th, 2006 · Few works in all of American literature document the musical life of pioneer America as effectively as the Little House on the Prairie series. This special features select songs and stories taken from the Little House series, with Riders in the Sky and other Nashville artists providing musical performances.
Dec 5th, 2006 · A rancher in Kansas is defying an order from the county to poison the prairie dogs on his property. He says the rodents help maintain a balance with other wildlife in the area, but his neighbors want the destructive little creatures exterminated.
Jun 9th, 2006 · The Robert Altman adaptation of Garrison Keillor's long-running radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, is a fictional behind-the-scenes look at a radio show's final broadcast. The film features Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson and Lindsay Lohan.
May 23rd, 2006 · In Missouri, efforts to restore native habitat are also helping restore the population of the grouse-like greater prairie chicken. The state lists them as endangered. Conservationists are calling the renewed success of the birds a marker of their success in restoring overgrazed land.
Sep 17th, 2005 · Singer-songwriter Neil Young discusses his latest album, Prairie Wind. It was recorded as Young was being treated for a brain aneurysm earlier this year.
May 12th, 2005 · Producer Mark Brush of the Great Lakes Radio Consortium offers an audio postcard from a "prairie burn" in Michigan. He spent a day with a burn crew that intentionally starts small prairie fires to help clear brush and weeds, enrich the soil and diminish the likelihood of larger fires.
Oct 19th, 2004 · Prairie dogs have infested Santa Fe's Fairview Cemetery, displacing bones and pieces of buried caskets. The cemetery is the resting place for some of New Mexico's past governors. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Erik Mason, president of the Fairview Cemetery Preservation Association.