Kylie Mohr
Kylie Mohr is an award-winning reporter based in Montana. She writes for High Country News, as well as National Geographic, Hakai Magazine/The Tyee, Montana Free Press, Montana Quarterly, The Copenhagen Post, and many others. Her work has also appeared on CNN and NPR.
Collecting seeds to restore prairie grasslands
Laughter and the chirping of grasshoppers mingled on a mild August morning as several young women, members of the Aaniiih and Nakoda tribes, searched for sweetgrass, running vegetation through their fingers as they tried to determine whether they held satiny sweetgrass or rough sedges. One held strands of sweetgrass in her mouth as the plant’s scent, reminiscent…