Three Riders in the Kansas Flint Hills

by Catherine Sherman

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Three Riders in the Kansas Flint Hills

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Catherine Sherman

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Photograph - Photography

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"Three Riders in the Kansas Flint Hills" by Catherine Sherman.

At sunset, three riders hurry to an area to be burned in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Smoke already fills the skies and plumes rise in the valley beyond.

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.

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.

This photograph received third place in photography in the Visions of the Flint Hills Art Show at the Buttonwood Art Space in 2015.

Featured in "Kansas - Showing Off Our Great State" group (12/22/2015); "ALL Fine Artwork" group (12/27/2015); "Midwest America Photography" group (12/28/2015); "The 200 Club - photos with over 200 views up to 500" group (12/28/2015); "Women Photographers" group (03/27/2018); "500 Views - 1 Image a Day" group (03/31/2018)

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March 23rd, 2015

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