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The wetland's primary outflow is an outlet canal to Little Cheyenne Creek to the southeast. [11] Little Cheyenne Creek empties into Cow Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas River. [3] [11] Cheyenne Bottoms lies entirely within Barton County. [11] The entire wetland occupies a natural land sink spanning 41,000 acres or 64 square miles (170 km 2). [4]
website, education center for 49,000-acre wetlands of the Cheyenne Bottoms and the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, operated by Fort Hays State University and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks: Milford Nature Center: Junction City: Geary: Flint Hills
Twenty-one miles (34 km) of canals have been constructed to create additional marshland. The Refuge has 34 wetlands from 10 to 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) in size totaling 7,000 acres (28 km 2). [5] The wetlands have high salt levels. Quivira also has about 13,000 acres (53 km 2) of sand dunes covered with prairie grasses.
Retired physician Dan Witt is an opponent of renewable energy assets being installed anywhere near Cheyenne Bottoms, a wetland near Great Bend. ... (The park website says they now get 57% of their ...
Cheyenne Bottoms 15,500 acres (6,300 ha) of wetland and marsh in 41,000 acres (17,000 ha) lowland [1] Lake Inman; Lake View Lake; Quivira National Wildlife Refuge 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) of wetland and marsh in 22,135 acres (8,958 ha) refuge
Oklahoma — the Wichita Mountains, and the Great Salt Plains Lake in Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge; Nebraska — the Platte River State Park near Louisville, Nebraska, and the Rainwater Basins to the south; Kansas — the Cheyenne Bottoms, the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge near the town of Stafford, the Red Hills, and the Smoky Hills ...
At that time, it was suggested that WPA bridges like 650 might attract tourists on the Kansas Wetlands and Wildlife Scenic Byway, a 77-mile (124 km) corridor running through Barton County and connecting Cheyenne Bottoms and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge. It was also hoped that the NRHP listing might bring in grant money to repair and ...
Wichita — its City Council and its Park Board especially — need to go back to basics and remember that the purpose of public parks, recreation and cultural services is to provide affordable ...