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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]
Retired physician Dan Witt is an opponent of renewable energy assets being installed anywhere near Cheyenne Bottoms, a wetland near Great Bend.
Kansas Wetlands Educational Center: Great Bend: Barton: Central: 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.
Cheyenne Bottoms, part of a massive natural land sink, provides an important wetlands habitat and has hosted at least 350 different birds. At Quivira, salt marsh and sand prairie have sheltered a ...
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This list of Ramsar sites in the United States are those wetlands that are considered to be of international importance, protected under the Ramsar Convention treaty. The United States as of 2020, has 41 sites designated as "Wetlands of International Importance" with a surface area of 1,884,551 hectares (7,276.29 sq mi; 18,845.51 km 2).
The GPS Ranger tours of Cheyenne Bottoms includes information on the area’s reptiles, like this bull snake found crawling along a dike road. (File Photo) One of the most common ones you’ll see ...