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Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park is a 330 acres (130 ha) state park in Logan County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is owned by The Nature Conservancy and located about 25 miles (40 km) south of Oakley and a similar distance north of Scott City.
The National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy established a bison herd with 13 animals in 2009 from Wind Cave National Park. The population of 90 bison not only represent a vital component for the tallgrass prairie ecosystem, but also help preserve the genetic integrity in the conservation of American bison.
A core 19,857 acres (80.36 km 2; 31.03 sq mi) parcel belongs to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP). The Nature Conservancy owns an adjacent 7,300 acres (29.54 km 2; 11.41 sq mi). The Kansas State and Nature Conservancy lands are managed with the objective of providing a diverse marsh habitat for the use of migrating and breeding ...
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.
One Kansas naturalist, who is otherwise a supporter of solar power, dislikes how close Acciona’s proposed site is to the Bottoms. ... But the Nature Conservancy’s Ben Postlethwaite and Brian ...
In 2018, the Nature Conservancy of Nebraska transferred 160 acres of historic tribal land in Richardson County to the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. The Nature Conservancy purchased the land in 1994 with help from the Nebraska Environmental Trust. [2] In 2020, the Nature Conservancy transferred an additional 284 acres of land to the tribe. [1]
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 ...
The Big Basin Prairie Preserve is a 1,818 acres (7.36 km 2; 2.84 sq mi) nature preserve owned and managed by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.The preserve is in the Red Hills near Ashland in Clark County, Kansas.