Ecologists in Nebraska are trying to find out what the Great Plains looked like when homesteaders settled there in the 19th century. To do that, they're working with a team of archaeologists and ...

SANFORD, Minn. -- Read a few entries in the guest book and you'll know Stan and Virginia McCone have a hit on their hands. The McCones own the Sod House Bed and Breakfast and encourage visitors to ...

The house is constructed of 30・sod walls, with material harvested from the land homesteaded by Dowse. The sod provided ideal insulation to protect the family living inside during the harsh ...

Some sod houses have been plastered over, fitted with new roofs and are still in use; unrestored examples are extremely rare. ... Thorne House Interior, Jones County, South Dakota, 2014.

EDINBURG (AP) - Stepping over the threshold of the Edinburg sod house is a trip back in time. Members of the community have furnished the sod house with late 19th Century and early 20th Century ...

For sod houses farther inland, Friesen said, the threat is soil warming up. "In many regions, the permafrost, the permanently frozen soil, is now starting to thaw," he said. "So it means that the ...

It wasn’t a windswept prairie. No pioneers were working to build a home in which they’d spend cold winters and hot summers. Instead, the grass was green and short and a group of volunteers ...

Ecologists in Nebraska are trying to find out what the Great Plains looked like when homesteaders settled there in the 19th century. To do that, they’re working with a team of archaeologists and ...

He believes sod houses in Inuit Nunangat appeared around 800 years ago, ... He's also taken his grandchildren inside, who he said were interested to hear about the process.