For more than 12,000 years, people have lived and died here.

A beautiful October Saturday for our annual Hayrides & Hikes event.

by Jan Axelson, president of the Friends board Each fall, groups of volunteers fan out across Dane County to collect seeds from prairies...

The Friends are donating $5,000 each to Madison & Dane County Parks annually to support restoration crew hours.

Autumn comes, as it does, with crispness in the air, color in the leaves, and introspection in the mind.

More than 400 species of plants exist on Wisconsin’s prairies. Whitman would have delighted in the rich variety, the rolling canvas of land