Three new trails have opened in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Cottonwood Falls in the middle of the Flint Hills near Lawrence, Kan. The trails range from 4 to 6 miles in length. The new ...

MANHATTAN – The Flint Hills make a visual statement that is unlike anyplace else: wide swaths of open prairie stretching over short, steep hills unbroken by trees and shrubs. In late summer and fall, ...

It's easy to envision the world that pioneers encountered while looking at a herd of bison grazing at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in east-central Kansas. Little has changed over the decades on ...

Wildflowers bloom on a grassland near Manhattan, the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Some trees can be seen in the distance. Keeping trees and shrubs at bay is part of prairie conservation. Kansas ...