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	Flint Hills Technical College Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Flint Hills Technical College is a two-year public institution of higher education nestled in the rolling hills of east-central Kansas.
		The mission of Flint Hills Technical College, as an associate degree granting institution, is to provide a diverse community of learners with life-long educational opportunities for personal growth and preparation for professional and civic responsibilities that meet the needs of society.
		Flint Hills Technical College is governed by a local Board of Trustees, comprised of appointed officials, area business/industry and educational representatives.
	www.fhtc.kansas.net /catalog/general_info.htm (617 words)

	Flint Hills geology, Kansas
		The Flint Hills includes the largest region of native tallgrass prairie remaining in North America, and so the surficial geology and geomorphology are readily visible in the landscape, on air photos, and in satellite images.
		The eastern margin of the Flint Hills is marked by a major escarpment that is especially prominent in northwestern Greenwood, southeastern Chase and eastern Butler counties.
		The Flint Hills are underlain by lower Permian limestone, shale and evaporites.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/field/flint/flint.htm (2537 words)

	Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge, a Kansas State Park near Emporia
		Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) was established in 1966 as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, John Redmond Reservoir flood control project.
		Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge, located in Kansas, is one of a sywstem of over 500 Refuges administered by the U.S...
		Flint Hills NWR is located adjacent to the town of Hartford, Kansas.
	www.stateparks.com /flint_hills.html (612 words)

	History of the Flint Hills Rodeo
		The Flint Hills Rodeo is still at home in Chase County, in the cattle country of the Kansas Flint Hills.
		The Flint Hills Rodeo prospers with even though its roots are traced to beginning in the Great Depression, counting on lots of volunteer help, continuing through wars and weathering tough times in the cattle business.
		The Flint Hills Rodeo began from a regular practice in the 1930's of staging pasture rodeos at the farm of Emmett Roberts near Strong City, Kansas.
	www.flinthillsrodeo.com /history.htm (1407 words)

	Flint Hills Resources - Koch Industries, Inc - Environmental, Health & Safety Web site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Flint Hills Resources has emphasized flaring reduction at its crude oil refineries, and is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop and share best practices aimed at reducing emissions during periods of startup, shutdown and malfunction.
		Flint Hills Resources is among the leaders in the refining industry in voluntarily producing cleaner-burning, low-sulfur fuels in advance of regulatory requirements.
		Flint Hills Resources is the title sponsor for the Flint Hills International Children’s Festival in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
	www.kochehs.com /HowWereDoing/FlintHills.asp (1188 words)

	Protecting the Flint Hills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Flint Hills is one of Kansas' secrets, and it is exactly the wrong place to put wind power.
		The Flint Hills are the best habitat left in the state for the prairie chicken, and they're also in the path of the Central Flyway.
		While wind power is one real threat, the other major threat to the Flint Hills is slower, more insidious, and "under the radar." Bad land management practices, such as bad burning, no burning at all, and sprawling "ranchettes" are turning North America's last great tallgrass prairie into shrubs and suburbs.
	www.kswildlife.org /conservation/flinthills.php (709 words)

	Welcome to Flint Hills National
		Flint Hills National features 67 bunkers and 24 acres of ponds that brings water into play on eight holes.
		When Flint Hills is ranked in Golf Digest later this year, Fazio expects it to make a strong national debut.
		Flint Hills measures 6,921 yards with a course rating of 75.4 and a slope rating of 152.
	www.flinthillsnational.com /Founder/Founder.htm (1164 words)

	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve - Geology, page 2
		The hills of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and the surrounding area are shaped by the rocks that lie directly beneath the vegetation and soil - the same rocks which made cultivation difficult and led to the use of native prairie grasses for ranching.
		The Flint Hills are characterized by thin soils, limestone outcrops, vegetation-covered shale intervals between the limestones, deeply incised valleys, and dissected topography.
		The Flint Hills cross east central Kansas from the north near the Nebraska border and extend into Oklahoma to the south.
	www.nps.gov /tapr/Geology2.htm (570 words)

	Koch Industries, Inc. - EPA Honors Flint Hills Resources with Clean Air Excellence Award
		Flint Hills Resources’ emissions-reduction project was one of 13 chosen by EPA from more than 120 applications.
		Flint Hills Resources earned the Clean Air Excellence Award in the clean technology category during the fourth annual awards ceremony.
		Flint Hills Resources, LP, based in Wichita, Kan., is a leading producer of fuels, base oils for lubricants, and other petrochemical products.
	www.kochnews.com /FHR-CleanAir/default.asp (478 words)

	Flint Hills geomorphology, Kansas
		The Leon Gravel is thought to be more-or-less equivalent to Neogene chert gravels that are common in the Neosho, Verdigris, Fall, and Marais des Cygnes basins east of the Flint Hills.
		Quartzite pebbles on hill tops of eastern Marion County are all that remain of a once-extensive alluvial plain that reached from the Goessel vicinity eastward across what is now the Flint Hills.
		During the Neogene, the Flint Hills did not exist as a prominent upland region; the Flint Hills emerged later, as stream erosion lowered terrains to the east and west.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/field/flint/geomorph.htm (2863 words)

	Flint Hills Rodeo Association Facilities
		Flint Hills area artists created the designs for the buckles, which celebrate and honor traditional rodeo events, scenes, and founders of the Flint Hills Rodeo.
		The 1992 limited edition buckle features a trick rider who was special to the Flint Hills Rodeo, Margie Roberts Hart, a member of the famed Roberts rodeo family, was an accomplished trick rider and rodeo contestant who performed at major rodeos for over 25 years.
		Barrel racing is always exciting and challenging at the Flint Hills Rodeo and has proved to be one of our events with the highest number of entries.
	www.flinthillsrodeo.com /buckles.htm (547 words)

	Press Release: Senate Approves Flint Hills Resources Contract - State Will Sell up to 77,000 Barrels per Day
		A long-term oil contract with the state is a condition of Flint Hills' purchase of the North Pole Refinery from Williams Alaska Petroleum.
		Flint Hills Resources has agreed to maintain the same average annual wholesale truck rack posted prices for gasoline at their terminals in Anchorage and Fairbanks, and has agreed to charge the same price for jet fuel to the same customer at Anchorage and Fairbanks airports.
		Flint Hills is a subsidiary of Koch Industries in Wichita Kansas.
	www.akrepublicans.org /therriault/23/news/ther2004030301p.php (1381 words)

	Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
		Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge is one of a system of over 500 refuges administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and dedicated to the preservation and conservation of wildlife.
		Named for the Flint Hills Region just to the west, the refuge consists of 18,500 acres located on the upstream portion of John Redmond Reservoir on land owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
		Established in 1966, the refuge is managed primarily for migratory waterfowl.
	flinthills.fws.gov (815 words)

	Wind Energy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Nature Conservancy's conservation goal in the Flint Hills is to maintain the intactness of this last tallgrass prairie landscape on the continent, and to improve the quality of site-specific habitats for target species and natural communities.
		The Flint Hills is also key to the long-term survival of the Greater Prairie-Chicken, a high-priority conservation target for The Nature Conservancy and Partners in Flight.
		The Flint Hills of Kansas comprises the largest tract, and is the only place left on the planet where tallgrass prairie remains on landscape scale.
	www.flinthillsheritage.org /pages/winde.html (2952 words)

	Flint Hills Technical College
		Flint Hills Technical College (FHTC) is an associate degree-granting public education institution.
		Subsequently, Senate Bill 258 that established the Flint Hills Technical College was passed by the legislature and signed into law by the governor.
		Flint Hills Technical College was the first technical school to become a technical college under the new legislation.
	www.fhtc.net /aboutfhtc/evolution_fhtc.htm (656 words)

	Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kansas River, formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers at appropriately-named Junction City, joins the Missouri at Kansas City, after a course of 150 miles (240 km) across the northeastern part of the state.
		Other important rivers are the Saline and Solomon, tributaries of the Smoky Hill River; the Big Blue, Delaware, and Wakarusa, which flow into the Kansas River; and the Marais des Cygnes, a tributary of the Missouri River.
		Located midway between Kansas City, Topeka, and Wichita in the heart of the Bluestem Region of the Flint Hills, the city of Emporia has several nationally registered historic places and is the home of Emporia State University, well-known for its Teachers College.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansas (5242 words)

	Flint Hills Center - Home
		The Flint Hills Center's latest policy paper, "Clearing the Air on Specialty Hospitals" details just what specialty hospitals are, why Kansas is home to such tremendous growth in the industry, and what policymakers and health care leaders can do to address the issue.
		The Flint Hills Center's latest policy paper, "K-12 Spending Performance in Kansas: 2006 Edition", uses reports from the Kansas State Department of Education to answer these and other questions.
		The Flint Hills study is funded with a grant from the Milbank Foundation for Rehabilitation in New York.
	www.flinthills.org (714 words)

	Flint Energy Services
		With the ability to deliver a full scope of midstream production services to its clients, Flint is able to provide services that incorporate a full lifecycle approach to all phases of our clients’ energy facility projects, from concept, development and design, through to completion, operations and maintenance.
		Flint has integrated the most innovative, positive and effective programs in the areas of Safety Management, Aboriginal and Community Affairs, Quality Control, Enhanced Business Services, Supply and Subcontract Management, Technology Services and Human Resources.
		Flint became a publicly listed company on November 22, 2001 and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol FES.
	www.flintenergy.com (215 words)

	Progress in Kansas Magazine: Flint Hills Rhapsody, June 1935 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When you must be stopped by the frames of a canvas, their gandeur vanishes, and you have only a clever study in oils of a pie-shaped segment of prairie.
		The silence of the Flint Hills is a straining to catch those far-away quiet sounds, the gurgling of a stream-fed brook muffled by watercress which grows along its limestone banks.
		To feel the Flint Hills you must watch their slow changes, the patches of cloud shadows that creep along the horizon, changing the fresh green of the new grass to a deeper emearld with a blue undertone.
	www.kancoll.org /articles/progress/flint1.htm (540 words)

	Pilgrim Ranch Retreat, LLC - Kansas, Flint Hills, Guest, Hunting, Fishing
		The Pilgrim Ranch headquarters is southeast of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas in the heart of the Flint Hills.
		Hills rise to 300 feet from base to crest, but because they belong to the open world of grasses, they dominate the horizon with their symmetrical and flattened tops and their trapezoidal slopes."
		Enjoy the many outstanding scenic views from the crests of the Flint Hills and observe the wildlife and nature so unique to the native tallgrass prairie.
	www.pilgrimranch.com (639 words)

	Flint Hills Resources Purchases Performance Chemicals Unit :: Inside Paint :: The Paint and Coatings Industry Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tim Nicol, previously with Flint Hills Resources in Corpus Christi, Texas, will be the vice president of manufacturing.
		Peter Brown, previously regional marketing manager for Flint Hills Resources in the Chicago area, will be director of global sales and marketing for the intermediates chemical business.
		Flint Hills Resources also operates a refinery in Minnesota, near the Twin Cities, that refines about 270,000 barrels-per-day, and one near Fairbanks, Alaska, which can refine up to 220,000 barrels-per-day.
	www.insidepaint.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2340&POSTNUKESID=26ad0ed9eedfe1699d7f955dc3cb415b (462 words)

	Flint Hills Flyers
		Flint Hills Flyers is based in north central Kansas with a landing strip and hangar located 4 miles east of Riley,Kansas.
		The Flint Hills Flyers motto shall be identical to that of the National Antique Airplane Association to "Keep the Antiques Flying".
		The "Flint Hills Flyers" was established in Manhattan and Junction City, Kansas in 1976, as a local chaper of the National Antique Airplane Association, for the preservation, restoration and flying of antique airplanes.
	www.kansas.net /~caley (406 words)

	Koch Industries, Inc. - Philantrophy in the News
		Flint Hills Resources joins in the weeklong cleanup, which starts June 22 and is being touted as the largest in Minnesota history.
		Flint Hills Resources was the primary underwriter for the event.
		In Minnesota, Flint Hills Resources is actively conserving and restoring riverfront property in cooperation with a local conservation group.
	www.kochind.com /community/news.asp?year=2002 (362 words)

	Corp Flint Hills Job (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Flint Hills Job Corps Center provides students with the training and educational skills needed to secure employment in long-term, specialized careers.
		Flint Hills Job Corps Center is located in the flint hills of Kansas between Manhattan and Junction City.
		Flint Hills is in a period of transition.
	www.inkernet.co.uk /jobs-32/corp-flint-hills-job.html (826 words)

	Williams Completes Sale of Alaska Holdings to Three Companies [Williams News Release]
		Today’s closing follows Flint Hills Resources’ successful completion earlier this month of a crude oil supply contract with the state of Alaska.
		The new contract provides Flint Hills Resources with up to 77,000 barrels per day of crude oil for 10 years.
		Flint Hills Resources has committed to spending about $100 million to make significant modifications to offer cleaner-burning fuels to Alaska communities and consumers, Robertson said.
	www.williams.com /newsmedia/2004/20040401_585.htm (844 words)

	GeoKansas--Flint Hills--Intro
		The Flint Hills are familiar to many travelers since this part of the state is traversed by both I-70 and the Kansas Turnpike.
		The Flint Hills were formed by the erosion of Permian-age limestones and shales.
		Because of this, the Flint Hills is still largely native prairie grassland, one of the last great preserves of tallgrass prairie in the country.
	www.kgs.ku.edu /Extension/flinthills/flinthills.html (379 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Flint Hills tall grasslands (NA0807)
		The Flint Hills Tall Grasslands covers the Flint Hills of Kansas and the Osage Plains of northeastern Oklahoma.
		The Flint Hills Tall Grasslands is the smallest grassland ecoregion in North America.
		Today, the Flint Hills Tall Grasslands is an anomaly–an essentially unplowed (although heavily grazed) remnant of the tallgrass prairie.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na0807_full.html (685 words)

	Canada Home
		Flint Hills Resources believes that part of being a responsible community and environmental steward is...
		Flint Hills Resources builds upon 40 years of Koch companies' experience in Canada.
		Flint Hills Resources Ltd. is among Canada's largest crude oil purchasers, shippers and exporters, coordinating supply for the Pine Bend Refinery in Minnesota and operating a crude oil terminal near Hardisty, Alberta.
	www.fhrcanada.com (100 words)

	Safety and Environment Home
		Flint Hills Resources believes that superior environmental, health and safety performance is an essential element for businesses that seek to be competitive long-term in today’s global markets.
		As an industry leader, Flint Hills Resources fully integrates environmental, health and safety initiatives and expectations into an employee’s culture.
		And Flint Hills Resources companies have earned recognition from local, state and national organizations for outstanding EHandS performance.
	www.flinthillsresources.com /safety/default.aspx (245 words)

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