Kansas Rancher Checks Fire Line
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Kansas Rancher Checks Fire Line
Artist
Catherine Sherman
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"Kansas Rancher Checks Fire Line" by Catherine Sherman.
A rancher on horseback checks a fire line in a controlled burn on his Flint Hills, Kansas, ranch.
The tallgrass prairie survives in areas unsuited to plowing, such as this section of the rocky hill country of the Flint Hills, which run north to south through east-central Kansas. Once vast, tallgrass prairie has shrunk to only one to four percent of its former size in North America.
Ranchers replicate natural fires when they burn the prairie every few years to destroy tree seedlings and alien plant species, which preserves the prairie as a grassland. The tallgrass prairie biome depends on prairie fires, a form of wildfire, for its survival and renewal. Such fires may either be set by humans (for example, Native Americans used fires to drive bison and improve hunting, travel, and visibility) or started naturally by lightning.
Featured in "Philanthropic Artists For A Cause" group (03/23/2015); "Beauty" group (03/23/2015); "Images That Excite You" group (04/11/2015); "Premium FAA Artists" group (04/12/2015); "Midwest America" group (04/13/2015); "All Natural Scenery Landscapes" group (04/27/2015); "Kansas - Showing Off Our Great State" group (12/10/2015); "The 200 Club - photos with over 200 views up to 500" group (12/12/2015); "500 Views - 1 Image a Day" group (02/03/2018) "500 Views - 1 Image a Day" group (02/03/2018); "10 Plus" group (02/04/2018)
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March 22nd, 2015
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Comments (12)
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
What a brave horse in a great glowing action image! Congratulations on your feature in The 200 Club!
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
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