Just under 100,000 acres have been burned areawide so far this burn season, a sharp increase from the nearly 17,500 acres burned as of March 20. Across the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma, the ...

What We’re Tracking Prescribed burns in the Flint Hills today have caused for some hazy conditions across northeast Kansas.

When photographer Jim Richardson first pitched National Geographic Magazine on a story about his home state of Kansas, his ...

Farmers and ranchers use controlled or prescribed burns to enhance native grasslands as well as reduce fuel loads that ultimately reduces wildfire risk.

His iconic work on the Flint Hills put Kansas in the national spotlight. Jim Richardson had a distinguished career making images for National Geographic Magazine stories on cultural, environmental ...

Prescribed fires are an annual practice in the Flint Hills of Kansas. The prairie fires, usually in March and April, are used to manage the tallgrass prairie, but the resulting smoke can affect air ...

The Flint Hills Metropolitan Planning Organization will hold two public meetings next week to further discuss its Electric ...

I’ve just gotten hooked on it.” There are plenty of other Kansas artists, working in a variety of media, whom the Flint Hills have similarly challenged to capture the beauty and openness of ...

Flint Hills,” said Annie Wilson, who was given the title of the Flint Hills Balladeer by former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. In a story about his death, Rex Buchanan, a writer and former ...