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Hotline: "Under tree canopy"
Megan Kaminski, Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas and editor of HK’s "Words of a Feather" book, reads her poem “Under tree canopy.”
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Hotline: Christmas Bird Count
Kim Perez of Fort Hays State University tells the story of how the annual Christmas Bird Count got its start in 1901 and how this conservation effort continues today on the Humanities Hotline.
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Hotline: The Wintering Prairie
Learning from the land. Emily Ryan, director of The Commons at The University of Kansas, invites listeners to explore and connect with the winter prairie on the Humanities Hotline.
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Diving Deep into Kansas Water
Take a deep dive into Kansas water stories with short films, articles, and activities that will have you swimming with new ideas.
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Sustaining Healthy Communities One Meal at a Time
On a recent warm July night, farmers, community members, scholars, and advocates came together in Emporia to think about the future of food and climate change.
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A Deluge of Things to Do
Farming, conservation, and community in Miami County, Kansas.
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Dam, That Took a Long Time
Farming, conservation, and community in Miami County, Kansas.
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Crossings: Getting Over, Around, and Through Water in Franklin County
Farming, conservation, and community in Miami County, Kansas.
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Joe Kuska and the Laboratory on the High Plains
Farming, conservation, and community in Miami County, Kansas.
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Empty Promises, Empty Riverbeds
Farming, conservation, and community in Miami County, Kansas.
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Look Down to Think Forward
Farming, conservation, and community in Miami County, Kansas.
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Can You Dig It?
Between 66 and 145 million years ago, Stanton County was under water, in a body of water known as the Western Interior Sea. Learn more about how Stanton County's water story continues.
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Horse Fossils and Buffalo Grass: Life on the Equus Beds Aquifer
Although it might not seem like water impacts every Kansan, Libby Albers and Brad Guhr work to assure the state that water very much does. Kansans need to preserve the natural aquifers that fuel the whole state.
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Dams, Democracy, and Cold Cuts
Community members from all over the state come together at the annual board meeting for the Upper Little Arkansas River Watershed Joint District No. 95., where members collectively settle water issues.
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Grant Avenue by Boat: 25 Years Since the 1993 Junction City Flood
After 32 inches of rain fell, Geary County community members banded together to lessen the impact of the massive flood on the areas surrounding Milford Dam in July 1993.
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"Water Clear and Pure, & Excellent for Drinking": Exploring the Solomon River
Robert McBratney helped the state of Kansas by traversing the wilderness along the Stockton River. The goal of McBratney's journey was to figure out where the railroad could lay routes through Kansas.
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