County: Chase

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Photographer: John Charlton/KGS

Place Name: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Short description: "Buffalo wallow" at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. The 11,000-acre 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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