Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Students and volunteers with the Haskell Greenhouse want to create accessible trails at the Haskell Wetlands and reintroduce native species to the area.
Crocuses are blooming, as are the other early spring ornamental snowdrops.
Butterfly enthusiasts in the eastern half of North America will have to look harder this spring and summer to spot monarchs, which have become an international symbol of insect conservation.
Douglas County commissioners will hold a work session and a special Saturday meeting this spring to discuss a permit for a massive solar farm north of Lawrence.
The Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge folks estimate that with the melting ice and recent rains, there are nearly 400,000 snow geese there right now.
A new outdoor classroom at Prairie Park Nature Center is in the works, and an open house Monday will reveal plans led by KU architecture students.
A bill aggressively promoted by the Kansas Chamber would forbid municipal bans on plastic straws and the thin, cheap plastic shopping bags often given consumers by stores and restaurants.
This is a wonderful time of year to take walks in area prairies and take photos of abstract patterns of tousled grasses and dried flowers.
Under a permanent quarantine the Kansas Department of Agriculture has endorsed, the Callery pear tree couldn’t be sold or planted anywhere in Kansas after Jan. 1, 2027.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission voted 6-3 early Tuesday morning to move forward with a new set of wind energy regulations at the end of a meeting that stretched six hours.
