County: Chase

Date: Pre 2010

Photographer: John Charlton/KGS

Place Name: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Short description: The 11,000-acre Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Flint Hills, established in 1996, represents a portion of the 170,000 acres of tallgrass prairie that once covered the central United States.

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