The Kansas Prairie – Our Beginning and Our Future

Reader Contribution by Joan Pritchard
Published on June 7, 2012
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Although most think of Kansas in reference to golden wheat fields, there is another aspect of Kansas that anchors our history as a state – the prairie.  That is the ecosystem that was conquered by the plow; it is the native land that was lost as the grasses became farmland and eventually cities. It is that part of Kansas that we are now trying to restore and preserve.  The prairie has stolen our hearts.

It is not easy making a living on ranch land, especially if it is done right and with conservation practices to protect the grasses.  New sciences now tell us that some of our old practices are destructive and we are trying to both profit and conserve.  Dioum, a poet and conservationist, once wrote,

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love.

We will love only what we understand.

We will understand only what we are taught.”

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