Author: Beverley Worster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"This book testifies to Kansas' natural abundance through spectacular color photography and sumptuous prose. Sponsored by the Kansas Land Trust, The Nature of Kansas Lands focuses on the world of nature that awaits us just beyond our fences: waterways, woodlands, grasslands, farmlands, and high plains. It's been crafted to encourage residents and visitors alike to explore backcountry roads, learn more about native flora and wildlife, and generally open their eyes to the state's wild beauty and ecological complexity."--BOOK JACKET.
The Nature of Kansas Lands
Kansas Land
Author: Thomas Dean Isern
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879052751
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the social, political, and geographical history of Kansas from its pre-history to the present.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879052751
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the social, political, and geographical history of Kansas from its pre-history to the present.
Fifty Million Acres
Author: Paul Wallace Gates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Special Report ... for 1886
Author: Kansas. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Real Estate Register of the Kansas Land Company
Author: Kansas Land Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Real property
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Real property
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Kansas Supplemental Planning Analysis
Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Oklahoma Resource Area Headquarters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Lands in Kansas
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
A Fragment of Kansas Land History
Author: Paul Wallace Gates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258592288
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The Kansas Historical Quarterly, V6, No. 3, August, 1937.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258592288
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The Kansas Historical Quarterly, V6, No. 3, August, 1937.
The Last Wild Places of Kansas
Author: George Frazier
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700624821
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little harder, George Frazier suggests, and you can find the last places where tenacious stretches of prairie, forest, and wetland cheat death and incubate the DNA of lost, wild America. Documenting three years spent roaming the state in search of these hidden treasures, The Last Wild Places of Kansas is Frazier's idiosyncratic and eye-opening travelogue of nature's secret holdouts in the Sunflower State. These are places where extirpated mammalian species are making comebacks; where flying squirrels leap between centuries-old trees lit by the unearthly green glow of foxfire; where cold springs feed ancient watercress pools; where the ice moon paints the Smoky Hills with memories of the buffalo, wolf, and the lonesome rattle of false indigo; where the blue lid of the sky forms a vacuum seal over treeless pastel hills, orange in winter; where bluestem rises. Some are impossible to find on maps. Most are magnificently bereft of anything beneficial to 99.9 percent of modern America. True wildernesses they may not be, but at the correct angle of light, when the wind blows pollen carrying biological memories of the glaciers, these places are a crack between the worlds, portals to the lost buffalo wilderness. En route Frazier takes us from the unexpected wilds of the Kansas City suburbs to the Cimarron National Grassland in the far southwestern corner of the state. He visits ancient springs, shares a beer with prairie dog hunters, and fails in his mission to canoe the upper Marais des Cygnes—a trip that requires permission from every landowner on the route. Along the way we encounter a host of curious characters—ranchers, farmers, Native Americans, explorers, wildlife experts, and outdoor enthusiasts—all fellow travelers in a quest to know, preserve, and share the last wild places of Kansas.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700624821
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little harder, George Frazier suggests, and you can find the last places where tenacious stretches of prairie, forest, and wetland cheat death and incubate the DNA of lost, wild America. Documenting three years spent roaming the state in search of these hidden treasures, The Last Wild Places of Kansas is Frazier's idiosyncratic and eye-opening travelogue of nature's secret holdouts in the Sunflower State. These are places where extirpated mammalian species are making comebacks; where flying squirrels leap between centuries-old trees lit by the unearthly green glow of foxfire; where cold springs feed ancient watercress pools; where the ice moon paints the Smoky Hills with memories of the buffalo, wolf, and the lonesome rattle of false indigo; where the blue lid of the sky forms a vacuum seal over treeless pastel hills, orange in winter; where bluestem rises. Some are impossible to find on maps. Most are magnificently bereft of anything beneficial to 99.9 percent of modern America. True wildernesses they may not be, but at the correct angle of light, when the wind blows pollen carrying biological memories of the glaciers, these places are a crack between the worlds, portals to the lost buffalo wilderness. En route Frazier takes us from the unexpected wilds of the Kansas City suburbs to the Cimarron National Grassland in the far southwestern corner of the state. He visits ancient springs, shares a beer with prairie dog hunters, and fails in his mission to canoe the upper Marais des Cygnes—a trip that requires permission from every landowner on the route. Along the way we encounter a host of curious characters—ranchers, farmers, Native Americans, explorers, wildlife experts, and outdoor enthusiasts—all fellow travelers in a quest to know, preserve, and share the last wild places of Kansas.
The Annals of Kansas
Author: Daniel W. Wilder
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385217075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385217075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.