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Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve on Encyclopedia.com (Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Osage Hills of Oklahoma) Prairie song: NPCA celebrates the formation of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, and Pritchard steps down. Pictures and Maps for: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-T1allgrassP1N1P1.asp

Kansas - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is a public/private partnership with The Nature Conservancy, the National Park Service and the Kansas Park Trust. The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is nearly 11,000 acres. By 2004, however, the preserve’s private partner had run into financial difficulty, to the extent that it appeared portions of the land would be sold to satisfy debt and other liabilities. nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/kansas/preserves/art15403.html

pr.doc Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve represents a unique partnership between the National Park Trust and the National Park Service. This portion of the once vast tallgrass prairie is being preserved as a critical resource for the benefit of and enjoyment of present and future generations. Conservation of this now rare part of our nation’s heritage is critical. Through their cooperation a rare example of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem and history is being preserved for future generations. www.geocities.com /richardsrealityorg/prstuff/intropr/pr.doc

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve - Travel, Recreation, Map Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is on the west side of Highway 177. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is located 2 miles north of Strong City, KS on Highway 177. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is a new kind of national park. greennature.com /travel/visit2944.html

Getting a larger prairie view LJWorld.com Ninety-five percent of the world’s surviving tallgrass prairie is in Kansas. Tallgrass prairie, a rich and diverse ecosystem that once stretched from Manitoba to Texas, has mostly been destroyed by development. In 1996, the preserve was established through a unique arrangement in which the National Park Trust purchased nearly 11,000 acres around a 32-acre park owned by the National Park Service. www2.ljworld.com /news/2005/aug/08/getting_larger_prairie_view?city_local

Transcript - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Barbara Zurhellen is the director of the Tallgrass preserve, employed by the National Park Trust with an office on the preserve's land. Narrator: Steve Miller, employed by the National Park Service with an office in downtown Cottonwood Falls, is the park manager of the Prairie preserve. Today only about one, oh, one to four percent of tallgrass prairie remains, and most of that is here in the Flint Hills. ktwu.wuacc.edu /journeys/scripts/1202b.html

L.L.Bean: Park Search - Tallgrass Prairie National Reserve The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, established in 1996, is the only unit in the National Park System dedicated to the rich natural and cultural history of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. This 10,894-acre portion of the once vast tallgrass prairie is preserved as a critical resource for the benefit, education and enjoyment of all. Tallgrass prairie once covered more than 140 million acres of the United States, from Indiana to Kansas and from Canada to Texas. www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/2056lln.htm

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve was created as a public/private partnership in November 1996 to protect a nationally significant example of the tallgrass ecosystem. The primary existing visitor activity areas in the preserve include the buildings of the former Z-Bar/Spring Hill ranch (being used as headquarters on a temporary basis until a new Visitor Center is constructed), the Fox Creek School (a late 19th century one-room school house), a nature trail, and acres of prairie lands. The preserve is located adjacent to U.S. Highway 50 and is bisected by Kansas Highway 177 near Strong City, Kansas. www.fta.dot.gov /library/policy/fedland/fieldreports/NPS/Midwest/TallgrassPrairie.html

Tallgrass Prairie Preserve: Reality or Illusion The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve was established by Congress on November 12, 1996 to preserve, protect, and interpret for the public an example of tallgrass prairie ecosystem and to interpret the historic and cultural values represented on the property. The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is the only unit in the National Park System dedicated to the natural and cultural history of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Because National Farms, as pasture lessee, is making a profit grazing cattle on this piece of Kansas prairie intended for public enjoyment, it is hard not to believe that their priorities are in having it continue as a large cattle pasture. www.kansas.sierraclub.org /Planet/nl-97-1201-articles.htm

Interior Activity & Accomplishments Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve: In 1997, a risk management report identified safety concerns due to the condition of numerous stone walls, stone fences, and steps in the historic ranch headquarters area of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve was created in 1996 in the Flint Hills region of Kansas. A project is now underway at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve to stabilize, repair, and restore these important stone structures, thereby maintaining the historic integrity of the site and protecting the visiting public and park staff. www.nbc.gov /accomplishments/printreport.cfm?states=KS

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (NPT) The only unit of the National Park System dedicated to the rich natural and cultural history of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem, the preserve was created in 1996. Situated in the heart of the Kansas Flint Hills, the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve now offers visitors the opportunity to experience the natural wonder and rich history of this quintessential landscape. This portion of the once vast tallgrass prairie is being preserved as a critical resource for the benefit of and enjoyment of present and future generations. www.parktrust.org /zbar.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizae influence plant community structure and diversity in tallgrass prairie The experiment was conducted at the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA), a 3487-ha tallgrass prairie preserve located in the Flint Hills region of northeastern Kansas (39 [degrees] 05[minutes] N, 96 [degrees] 35[minutes] W). Several recent studies have demonstrated that AM fungi are ubiquitous and ecologically important in tallgrass prairie, and that co-occurring plant species vary considerably in their germination, growth, and flowering responses to mycorrhizal infection along a continuum from highly responsive, obligately mycotrophic species to facultatively mycotrophic, nonresponsive species (Hetrick et al. The vegetation is native tallgrass prairie, dominated by the perennial, warm-season matrix grasses big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii Vit.), little bluestem (Andropogon scoparius Michx.), Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans [L.] Nash), and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) (Kuchler 1967, Freeman and Hulbert 1985). www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2120/is_4_80/ai_54994050

AllRefer.com - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, United States (U.S. National Park System) - Encyclopedia Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve: see National Parks and Monuments (table). Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, U.S. National Park System More articles from AllRefer Reference on Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/X/X-TallgrassPNP.html

EPA: Federal Register: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas The preserve will be managed to maintain and enhance the tallgrass prairie within its boundaries through the use of fire and historic and contemporary grazing regimes in different combinations that vary over time and location. to preserve and interpret for the public the historic and cultural values represented on the Spring Hill Ranch.'' Preserving both the natural and cultural resources that are related to the tallgrass prairie requires careful balancing to ensure that neither type of resource receives inordinate adverse impacts. The majority of the preserve would be designated a cultural area, where most of the cultural resources would be restored, stabilized, or preserved, and visitor access to these resources would be maximized. www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2000/December/Day-15/i31914.htm

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is on the Flint Hills Scenic Byway. The TPNP is managed by the National Park Service to preserve, restore, and interpret the ranch home site and the surrounding tallgrass prairie rangeland. Cottonwood Falls is one mile south on K-177 and the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is two miles north (on the west side of K-177). www.naturalkansas.org /tallgras.htm

SPARE Report - Wildlands - Sierra Club The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is operated under a grazing lease that involves an annual spring burning of virtually all of the native grasses, followed by intensive early-season grazing. But today, the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is threatened by the same irresponsible cattle-grazing practices that have already spoiled many of America's pristine grasslands. The Kansas Chapter of the Sierra Club is working to preserve the small amount of native prairie that remains and to institute grazing practices that will not deplete this fertile land. www.sierraclub.org /wildlands/report_1999/neighborhood/tallgrass.asp

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Legislative History, 1920-1996 At this meeting, Klataske outlined a proposal for establishing the ranch as a tallgrass prairie monument, possibly in conjunction with a tallgrass prairie parkway, with land for the latter to be acquired on a willing-seller basis. [115] Klataske, a native Kansan with a farming and ranching background, had been involved in the tallgrass prairie park effort since the early 1970s and had long maintained the position that any land acquisition must be on a willing-seller basis with protections against federal use of eminent domain. In June 1988, the National Audubon Society secured an option to purchase the ranch from Boatman's National Bank of Kansas City, acting on behalf of the ranch trustees. www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/tapr/tapr_7.htm

Oklahoma - Oklahoma Preserve - Tallgrass Prairie The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is the largest protected remnant of tallgrass prairie left on earth. Since 1989, the Conservancy has proven successful at restoring this fully-functioning portion of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem with the use of 2,000+ free-roaming bison and a "patch-burn" model approach to prescribed burning. The Tallgrass Prairie Ecological Research Station was completed in 2004. nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/oklahoma/preserves/tallgrass.html

Prairie parsley Found in dry, rocky soils of prairies and open woodlands. www.lib.ksu.edu /wildflower/prairieparsley.html

Grasslands From the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City, Iowa, The Refuge is the largest re-creation of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem anywhere in the United States. Read about the conservation programs which are helping preserve the grasslands and prairie ecosystems. "The stunning hills and vistas in this region of Kansas are a rare remnant of the vast expanse of tallgrass prairie that once covered much of central North America." www.eco-pros.com /grasslands.htm

National Park Unit Donated by Private Citizens The entrance to Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is located two miles north of Strong City, Kansas on State Highway 177. STRONG CITY, KS, September 27, 2002 - The National Park Service (NPS) and the National Park Trust (NPT) officially recognized the transfer of a significant portion of the nation's only national park unit dedicated to the once vast tallgrass prairie ecosystem, the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, located near Strong City, KS. For over fifty years, park advocates have hoped to create a national park unit dedicated to the great tallgrass prairie that once dominated the nation's heartland. www.earthvision.net /ColdFusion/News_Page1.cfm?NewsID=22459

NEWS RELEASE But parts of that prairie were in danger of being lost, which is why the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve was founded. On February 17, 2005, Governor Sebelius announced that the trust purchased the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve from the National Park Trust. Today at the preserve, Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Director of the Interior Department’s Office of External and Intergovernmental Affairs Kit Kimball, former Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, representatives of The Nature Conservancy and community leaders celebrated the securing of thousands of acres of prairie land for future generations. www.ksgovernor.org /news/docs/news_rel040705a.html

TKHA - Links National Park Service - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve In the 1850s Kansas was at the crossroads of the nation. It was linked to the east and west, north and south, by the Oregon, California and Santa Fe Trails, Colorado Gold Routes, the Lane Trail, the Pony Express route, and the early military and cattle trails. www.territorialkansas.org /links/index.shtml

Kansas, state, United States: Geography The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is one of the few large tracts of virgin prairie in the United States. The land rises more than 3,000 ft (914 m) from the eastern alluvial prairies of Kansas to its western semiarid high plains, which stretch toward the foothills of the Rocky Mts. The rise is so gradual, however, that it is imperceptible, although the terrains of the east and the west are markedly different. www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0859091.html

Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS The National Park Trust, a not-for-profit organization based in Washington, DC, acquired the 11,000 acre Z-Bar Ranch from Boatmen’s Bank for $4.7 million in 1994, paving the way for the creation of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve under legislation signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. National visibility for the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve has helped spur tourism in historic Chase County, Kansas, which includes the towns of Strong City and Cottonwood Falls. For decades, preservationists and politicians had sought to create a national park in the Flint Hills of Kansas, which encompasses the last remaining stand of tallgrass prairie habitat in North America. www.ens-newswire.com /ens/feb2005/2005-02-17-09.asp

National Park Trust Ultimately, the National Park Trust works to exchange or give the land it acquires to suitable organizations which agree to preserve and manage those resources as parklands in perpetuity. The National Park Trust's research found that over 90,000 acres in the state parks are currently threatened by overuse, traffic, adjacent commercialism, encroachment, rapid land development, ever rising land values and privately owned land within... The National Park Trust is the only land conservancy uniquely dedicated to preserving America’s national system of parks, wildlife refuges, and historic monuments. www.charitywire.com /charity114

Prairie Postscripts Green prairie grasses and wildflowers cover the landscape in the spring. Subtle shadings of red and tan tallgrass envelope autumn hillsides. An early morning drive finds the low sun accentuating the freshly tilled rows of a farmer's field, adding accent to the gentle contour of the land. www.planetkc.com /scoupe/postscript.html

National Park Foundation Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Located in Cottonwood Falls, KS On November 12, 1996, legislation was passed creating Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Flint Hills region of Kansas. The National Park Foundation depends entirely on the generosity of private individuals, foundations and corporations to fund its operations and grant-making activity to benefit National Parks. Your donation will fund core National Park activities and will also go to Park-related programs, initiatives and funds that work to ensure that all Americans have an opportunity to connect with their National Parks. www.nationalparks.org /PlanYourParkTrip/PlanYourParkTrip-ParkProfile.asp?partnerid=1563

AAA Midwest Traveler Below The stately Z Bar/ Spring Hill Ranch at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, which examines the ecology and economy of the tallgrass prairie region. According to the National Park Service, tallgrass prairie once covered more than 400,000 square miles of the North American continent. Many grasses comprise a tallgrass prairie: the towering big bluestem that can grow as tall as a human; prairie dropseed with its scent of buttered popcorn; feathery Indian grass and pale-blue Canada wild rye are only a few. www.ouraaa.com /traveler/0403/prairie_m.html

Western wild lettuce Found in open prairies, often in disturbed areas. The flowers are open for only a brief time in the morning. www.lib.ksu.edu /wildflower/westernlettuce.html

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