Watching the Fire in the Flint Hills
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Watching the Fire in the Flint Hills
Artist
Catherine Sherman
Medium
Photograph - Photography Digitally Enhanced
Description
"Watching the Fire in the Flint Hills of Kansas" by Catherine Sherman.
Two ranchers watch a controlled burn of grassland on their ranch in the Flint Hills of Kansas.
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 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.
Featured in "ALL SEASONS Landscapes" group (04/07/2015); "Midwest America Photography" group (04/13/2015); "Starving Artist Photographers" group (01/25/2016)
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April 7th, 2015
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