If successfully reintroduced to the wild, the duo could give a boost to the fledgling barn owl population in the state. Gibson and her associates at REGI gave the birds final physical examinations ...

Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, just south of Gainesville, comprises nearly 23,000 acres of marsh, wet prairie and open water and is home to a herd of 1,000-plus-pound bison and wild horses.

East of Route 176 on the edge of Crystal Lake and Prairie Grove, a gravel road leads past a creek and up a hill to a 110-year-old barn. Just past the barn is a sprawling 65-acre landscape of grass ...

There are bison and swales of sweet grass all the way to the horizon, and a vast blue sky, all completely wild. Enlarge this image Tallgrass prairie used to cover 170 million acres of North America.