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Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Environment August 6, 2025 - 6:45 pm

How to start incorporating native plants into Lawrence lawns and gardens this season

by Wulfe Wulfemeyer

Everyone in Lawrence with access to some soil and seeds can participate in restoration ecology by planting native species this season. Here are some suggestions to start seeding prairie plants.

August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Environment April 28, 2024 - 10:05 pm

A year since Prairie Park remnant prairie was sprayed, community workdays planned for nearby site

by Lawrence Times

A year has passed since the remnant prairie at Prairie Park Nature Center was errantly sprayed with herbicides. Lawrence community members can visit the site and help restore nearby prairie during upcoming workdays.

August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Education August 28, 2022 - 2:24 pm

Collaborative grant will help restore natural space at Prairie Park, provide conservation lessons

by Tricia Masenthin

More pollinators and wildlife could soon buzz and burrow within Prairie Park. Coordinators of a grant-funded prairie habitat restoration project have begun the process of restoring a portion of the park, and they need the public’s help.

Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Environment July 3, 2022 - 1:13 pm

Couple’s ‘little pocket prairie’ beckons butterflies to Indian Hills neighborhood

by Tricia Masenthin

Call it a pollinator’s delight, a butterfly haven, a nectar buffet. This Monarch Waystation is the pride of longtime Lawrence gardeners Dena Podrebarac and Heidi Rios.

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