Jim Richardson had a distinguished career making images for National Geographic Magazine stories on cultural, environmental ...

Prescribed fires are an annual practice in the Flint Hills of Kansas. The prairie fires, usually in March and April, are used to manage the tallgrass prairie, but the resulting smoke can affect air ...

Farmers and ranchers use controlled or prescribed burns to enhance native grasslands as well as reduce fuel loads that ultimately reduces wildfire risk.

half of which is in Kansas. The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve at Strong City Strong City is home to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, a crown jewel of the Flint Hills. This 11,000 ...

Hoy’s interest in the prairie fires that snake across the landscape every spring came naturally, because he grew up near Cassoday in the Flint Hills of Kansas. It is the smallest of towns ...

It’s a busy, and often stressful season for Chase County Fire Chief Steve Fillmore, and other volunteer emergency crews and ...

Just under 100,000 acres have been burned areawide so far this burn season, a sharp increase from the nearly 17,500 acres burned as of March 20. Across the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma, the ...

Area farmers and ranchers gathered Sunday afternoon at Pioneer Bluffs near Matfield Green for a “Conversation About ...

(WIBW) - Although Telsas aren’t quite taking the Kansas roadways by storm just yet, electric vehicles are all the craze on America’s Coastlines. That’s why the Flint Hills Metropolitan ...

(WIBW) - Flint Hills Technical College (FHTC ... Coffey and Osage counties in Kansas. It originally focused on polio research and has now expanded its mission to support other community needs.