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Learn about the Kansas roots of Smokey Bear, New Deal public works programs, the environmental movement, and a Rawlins County mural.

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Ranchers and Students Discuss Tallgrass Prairie Full Story Nature   Kansas 1972: Think Globally, Act Locally Episode 4 of the "Kansas 1972" podcast revisits the fight against a proposed nuclear waste site and efforts to preserve the tallgrass prairie. Full Story man reading poem an outdoor setting Full Story Nature   Hotline: "a letter to the wetlands" Ignacio Carvajal, Ph.D. recites his poem “a letter to the wetlands.” Full Story man speaking into microphone Full Story Nature   Hotline: Reflections on Kansas Buffalo Teacher and artist José Faus reflects on buffalo through story and his own poetry. Full Story scissor-tailed flycatcher Full Story Nature   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.” Full Story
chickadee on a snowy branch   Full Story 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. Full Story
prairie in winter   Full Story 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. Full Story
old stone bridge   Full Story 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. Full Story
Our Good Earth Full Story   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. Full Story
Stephen Locke Photography Full Story   The Weather of Our Lives I've been traveling Kansas as part of HK's Speakers Bureau to explore what weather and our panoramic sky say about how to live and who we are. Full Story
Museum at Prairiefire wetlands Full Story   The Prairie Wetlands: Natural Neighborhoods The Museum at Prairiefire's wetlands incorporate classic Kansas imagery such as sunflowers, waving wheat, and cottonwood trees. This "natural neighborhood" contrasts with the Overland Park museum's stunning architecture. Full Story
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Shifting Course Full Story   Shifting Course Produced by the Arkansas City Area Arts Council Full Story Waters of Kansas Video Full Story   Waters of Kansas Produced by the Arkansas City Area Arts Council Full Story When the Well Runs Dry Video Full Story   When the Well Runs Dry Produced by the Arkansas City Area Arts Council Full Story With the Grain Video Full Story   With the Grain Produced by the Arkansas City Area Arts Council Full Story A house floats along in the 1951 flood near Eudora. Full Story   A Deluge of Things to Do Produced by the Arkansas City Area Arts Council Full Story The construction of Wyandotte County Lake Dam, circa 1938 Full Story   Dam, That Took a Long Time Produced by the Arkansas City Area Arts Council Full Story
The dedication of Ottawa's Main Street bridge, 1926. Full Story Nature   Crossings: Getting Over, Around, and Through Water in Franklin County The Marais des Cygnes River meandered through the center of Franklin County, nearly cutting it in half from west to east. Learn about how the Main Street bridge in Ottawa, Kansas, bridged a county and communities. Full Story Joe Kuska digs a soil sample at the Colby Branch Station. Full Story Nature   Joe Kuska and the Laboratory on the High Plains In the midst of erratic rainfall, high winds, and extreme temperature shifts of the 20th century, Joe Kuska researched better farming practices in an agricultural experiment center in Colby, Kansas. Full Story Townspeople of Dodge City stand on both sides of the Soule Canal, which has water in it - a rare site, 1911. Full Story Nature   Empty Promises, Empty Riverbeds In the 1880s, the Gilbert brothers planned to create the Eureka Canal, which would divert water from the Arkansas River through Southwestern Kansas. However, the canal did not produce what the plans promised. Full Story The view, looking upward, from the bottom of the Big Well in Greensburg, Kansas. Full Story Nature   Look Down to Think Forward For over a century, water has remained integral to the well-being and culture of Greensburg, Kansas. Learn more about how Greensburg leads the state in energy and environmental development. Full Story
A mural at the Stanton County Museum depicts thepre-historic animals that lived in the Western Interior Sea. 

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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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