Keystone pipeline owners knew of defect years before Kansas spill
Owners of the Keystone pipeline knew a defect had formed years before the strain finally caused the pipeline to burst and flood a Kansas creek with oil last year.
Ken Lassman
Kaw Valley Almanac for May 22-28, 2023
The large milkweed beetle is colorful for the same reason monarch butterflies are: to warn potential predators that their milkweed diet makes them poisonous and not worth eating.
Ken Lassman
Kaw Valley Almanac for May 15-21, 2023
Spiderwort is a perennial native wildflower that has started blooming in area prairies.
Our love affair with uniform landscapes kills trees. So Kansas and Missouri are going for variety
About one-third of Overland Park’s street trees are maples. Experts say cities must diversify their canopies, or pests will keep devastating them.
Chloe Anderson/Lawrence Times
Van Go JAMS artists unveil new mural in the Baker Wetlands Discovery Center
Dozens of people gathered in the Baker Wetlands Discovery Center Wednesday night to view the new mural by Van Go’s apprentice artists.
Lawrence-Douglas County Sustainability
Drive-thru event to recycle electronics set for Saturday in Lawrence; volunteers needed
Douglas County residents are encouraged to bring their disused electronics to a drive-thru recycling event coming up Saturday in Lawrence.
Molly Adams/Lawrence Times
Lawrence community members gather for healing at remnant prairie where flowers are dying from herbicide
Dozens of Lawrence community members visited the remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center Monday evening for a healing gathering, following the city’s use of herbicide spray that is killing millions of wildflowers.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Lawrence Parks and Rec management: Staff turnover, lack of plan led to remnant prairie herbicide spray
All the people who knew how to care for the remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center have retired or resigned in the past few years, city staff members said Monday, and there was no firm plan in place to share that knowledge with newer staff.
Douglas County Spring Farm Day: See where our foods and fibers come from
Douglas County Spring Farm Day allowed people to get up close and personal Saturday with the farmers who grow food for the farmers markets, supply meats to local restaurants, process all-natural yarn from animal fur and more.
This episode of Lawrence Times TV gives a glimpse into some of the farms from the event and how local farms are working together to succeed.
Ken Lassman
Kaw Valley Almanac for May 8-14, 2023
The incredible fuchsia pink of the prairie phlox wildflower is showing up in area prairies, joined by prairie violets, lingering creamy wild indigo, puccoons, verbena and many others on the verge of joining them.
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