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The Flint Hills - Tales out of School
12/03/2012
Characteristics, history and life over the last two centuries in the Flint Hills.
by
Jim Hoy
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Flint Hills Kansas - Nature Field Guide
12/03/2012
This article is a brief description and history of the Flint Hills.:)
by
The Nature Conservancy - Kansas
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Flint Hills - Yahoo's Top 10 Travel Destination
12/03/2012
The Flint Hills was named in a list of travel destinations in America. Author Rolf Potts puts it this way: Most
folks consider the Great Plains fly-over country — and that's a shame,
since the prairies are home to America's subtlest charms and scenery.
Mostly treeless, and curving gently across the eastern Kansas landscape,
the ... more
Ode to Kansas
12/03/2012
It's
stridently anti-abortion, fervently behind creationism, considered
flat, bland 'flyover land' to most left-leaning Americans. But, finds
Paul Harris, there's plenty to love about Dorothy's homeland.
by
Paul Harris - The Observer
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Flint Hills tourism is means to an end
12/03/2012
"Disney's
not coming to the Flint Hills," Ted Eubanks told his audience Thursday
afternoon. "Large industry? Not coming." But tourists could be and, by
using the right tools, they should be coming in droves.
by
The Emporia Gazette - Bobbi Mlynar
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Kansas - a place of discovery
12/03/2012
Kansas… “Home, home on the range”…these are more than just words in
the Kansas state song. They are words that describe the experiences and
down home hospitality vacationers will discover when they visit Kansas.
by
Easier - Travel News (UK)
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Elk County Courthouse Tower Clock
12/03/2012
by Shirley Black/Flint HIlls Express
Chime the Time
The
Elk County Courthouse finally has a clock. It's a beautiful clock that
chimes the hour during the day and silently glows the time during the
night. The original 1907 courthouse blue prints show a clock was planned
for installation nearly 100 years ago when the courthouse was ... more
Human Nature: Big-Sky Prairie
12/03/2012
Learning to see the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
by
Sally Shivnan / Nature Conservancy Magazine
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National Geographic - April 2007 - The Flint Hills: A Kansas Treasure
12/03/2012
The Prairie's Grip is Unbroken in the Flint Hills of Kansas.
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National Geographic - by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Photos by Jim Richardson
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Lazy D Outfitters
12/03/2012
Dan
and Carla are the owners/operators of the Lazy D Outfitter in Madison,
Kansas. The Lazy D hosted Babe Winkleman, the outdoor legend that has
been teaching people to fish and hunt for 25 years on his award-wining
programs; "Good Fishing" and "Outdoor Secrets" as well as numerous
television shows.
by
Kansas Agritourism News
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Old Kansas, Still Growing Tall
12/03/2012
THINK
all of Kansas is flat? Think again. The Flint Hills, in the eastern
part of the state, fan out over 183 miles from north to south,
stretching 30 to 40 miles wide in parts, the land folding into itself,
then popping up in gentle bumps, with mounds looming far off on the
horizon.
by
Betsy Rubiner / New York Times
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KSNT Blog and Clip on National Geographic
12/03/2012
Read the KSNT Blog and Film Clip regarding the Kansas Flint Hills coverage in the April National Geographic.
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KSNT News
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Rancher works to preserve Kansas' scenic Flint Hills
12/03/2012
EMPORIA,
Kan. (AP)--If you asked Jane Koger what she'd do if given the choice to
go to heaven or stay in the Kansas Flint Hills, she'd tell you she'd
rather stay in the Flint Hills.
Koger is the owner of the
Homestead Ranch in Chase County, a 4,000-acre privately owned ranch. She
has turned her love of the Flint Hills into a lifelong ... more
Bill Kurtis: In Praise of the Prairie
12/03/2012
On
his ranch in the Flint Hills of Kansas, Bill Kurtis walks among cows
grazing on big bluestem and other prairie grasses. "Eat up, girls," he
says in a resonant voice familiar to millions of Americans from his
hosting roles on the A&E Network programs Investigative Reports and
Cold Case Files.
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Artist's filming of Flint Hills fires captures prairie cycles
12/03/2012
Louis Copt watches the TV screen, which shows a roaring, crackling fire rushing through brown grass in the Flint Hills.
All that's missing is the smell of smoke and the terror of actually being there.
"It was way too windy to be burning that day," Copt says with asmirk.
He would know -- he was the one holding the video ... more
Restoration Row
12/03/2012
PAWHUSKA,
Okla. - It is hard to love a land you don't understand, and for most of
my life I had no idea why anyone would ever live in the Great Plains -
let alone love the place.
Flat, featureless, boring. Those were
the words I heard growing up whenever someone would mention the plains.
My view was informed by Dorothy's Kansas, ... more
Midwest Living - Kansas Flint Hills
12/03/2012
Savor the open grasslands of this gorgeous expanse.
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Midwest Living
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Lazy T Ranch
12/03/2012
by Julie Roller, Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corporation
Located just minutes away from the heart of Manhattan, the Lazy T Ranch is one of the Flint Hills’ best-kept secrets.
While
some would be curious about their willingness to share this
awe-inspiring ranch, the Wilson family welcomes visitors to their
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Long Weekend: Winter on a Silver Platter
12/03/2012
Bed and Breakfasts serve up warmth and comfort in the Flint Hills
by
Julie Cirlincuina / Kansas Outdoor Treasures
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Heavenly Places Without the Hype
12/03/2012
Why people ignore it: It's Kansas, and we get excited about Kansas only during March Madness, if at all.
by
Denver Post
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Two for the Road
12/03/2012
The farmers who plowed up most of the American Midwest spared the
Flint Hills, which in aerial photos look like immense green ocean
swells, because the rock was too close to the surface for plows. The
buffalo were replaced by cattle, but in an area roughly the size of
Vermont, the tallgrass prairie survives, a remnant of what most of the
midsection of North America once must have looked like.
by
New York Times / Barbara Ireland
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Flint Hills on a Fence!
12/03/2012
Flint Hills Art Posted on Discovery Center Construction Fence
Construction has begun on the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan. During the next 19 months of construction, the fence surrounding the site will serve as an art gallery for the 22 counties of the Flint Hills. Each county submitted at least two panels depicting that county's ... more
Weaving Rugs and Tales by the Cottonwood Falls
12/03/2012
Byway Spotlight
Weaving Rugs and Tales by the Cottonwood Falls
By Julie Midgley
This article originally appeared in the August/September issue of Keynotes, a publication of the North Central-Flint Hills Area Agency on Aging.
Between Council Grove and Cassoday is the Flint Hills National Scenic Byway, a 47.2 mile stretch of road ... more
