The Washington Post recently ran a very insightful article about the dramatic decline in the monarch butterfly population over recent years. Each year, the butterflies migrate to Mexico, where they spend the winter before returning to various parts of the United States. Last year, there were about 50 million butterflies…

Various plant species have flourished on The Mound decades, if not centuries. Because The Mound was used by pioneers as a hay meadow and not plowed, the numerous varieties of wildflowers and prairie grasses that grow there have been undisturbed. In this informative video, Bill Neiman from Native American Seed…

Three hundred Flower Mounders turned out on Saturday, April 27, 2013, to help paint the perimeter fence of The Mound and pull invasive weeds from among the lovely wildflowers that blanket this rare remnant of native prairie. Instigated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the day of…