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Konza Prairie Preserve, a tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills A walking trail in the Konza Prairie shows the height of the grasses in the fall. Explorer Zebulon Pike first coined the name the Flint Hills in 1806 when he entered into his journal, "passed very ruff flint hills". The underlying bedrock of the hills is a flinty limestone.
The Konza Prairie Biological Station is a 8,616-acre (3,487 ha) protected area of native tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of northeastern Kansas. "Konza" is an alternative name for the Kansa or Kaw Indians who inhabited this area until the mid-19th century. [1] The Konza Prairie is owned by The Nature Conservancy and Kansas State University.
There are over 40 miles (64 km) of maintained hiking trails in the preserve allowing visitors access to the tallgrass prairie. During the summer, narrated bus tours of the prairie are offered. On January 29, 2008, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve was named as one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas by the Kansas Sampler Foundation .
The Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, in Osage County, Oklahoma near Foraker, Oklahoma, is the largest protected tract of tallgrass prairie in the world. . Managed by The Nature Conservancy, the preserve contains 39,650 acres (160 km 2) owned by the Conservancy and another 6,000 acres (24 km 2) leased in what was the original tallgrass region of the Great Plains that stretched ...
This extension is named the Southwind Rail-Trail, and opened to the public on June 10, 2013. [1] Future aspirations of the trail include intersecting the future Flint Hills Nature Trail, a 117-mile (188 km) trail under construction (as of 2024) connecting Herington, Kansas, to the west, and Osawatomie, Kansas, to the east, in Ottawa. The ...
The Flint Hills Discovery Center is a municipal heritage and science center located in the city of Manhattan, Kansas. Featured within the facility are exhibits detailing local history and preservation of the Flint Hills , a theater, a specialized interactive playground for youth and parents, and a temporary exhibition gallery.
Hiking columnist Susan Anderson recently traversed the 'Devil's Backbone' at Pine Hills Nature Preserve in ... The trail that runs through the preserve is about 3 1/2 miles in length and is a loop ...
Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is a wildlife refuge located north and east of the city of Hartford, Kansas, United States, in northwestern Coffey and southeastern Lyon Counties. It was established in 1966 as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , John Redmond Reservoir flood control project. [ 1 ]