CEDAR RAPIDS — Linn County lost up to an estimated 1 million trees in the 2020 derecho, and one Marion nonprofit organization has made a dent in replacing them over the past four years — one tree at a ...

Thousands of trees are being planted by Eastern Iowa educators as a part of the Monarch Research Project Planting Forward to help replace trees lost in the derecho. Planting Forward is a grant program ...

The Monarch Research Project, based in Marion, launched the Planting Forward initiative immediately following the 2020 derecho. The program was created with two main goals, replanting and educating.

It's almost spring! And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help pollinators like the endangered eastern monarch butterfly. The ...

If you see a monarch butterfly in your Wichita yard, you might want to take an extra long look, because this may be the last month of the year you’ll see them flying around your garden. The monarch ...