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Reb Bryant
Environment May 7, 2023 - 3:44 pm

Photos: Wildflowers of Prairie Park’s remnant prairie before the herbicide spray

by Lawrence Times

We asked readers to please send us their photos of the spring wildflowers on the remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center, so the Lawrence community can recall their beauty if the flowers don’t come back from the city’s herbicide spray.

August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Environment May 3, 2023 - 12:33 pm

Community members to hold healing gathering for Prairie Park remnant prairie

by Lawrence Times

A group of community members on Monday will gather for a healing event following the destruction of wildflowers on remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center.

Courtney Masterson/Contributed
Community Voices May 2, 2023 - 9:58 am

Ken Lassman: Lawrence Parks and Rec is downplaying herbicidal overkill of remnant prairie (Column)

by Ken Lassman

”Parks and Rec is seriously downplaying the unlikelihood of the prairie (behind Prairie Park Nature Center) recovering after being so seriously damaged and depleted by this senseless act,” Ken Lassman writes in this column.

Courtney Masterson/Contributed
Environment May 1, 2023 - 11:37 am

Wildflowers on remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center to die from herbicide spray

by Mackenzie Clark

Millions of irreplaceable wildflowers that have grown for thousands of years in the remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center will be dead within days. 

Ken Lassman
Environment May 1, 2023 - 7:00 am

Kaw Valley Almanac for May 1-7, 2023

by Ken Lassman

The photo at left is what compassplant in the Prairie Park prairie looked like a year ago on May 1, and the image to the right is what it looked like on Sunday. The prairie has been sprayed.

Arts & Events April 30, 2023 - 5:13 pm

Second annual Douglas County Spring Farm Day coming up

by Lawrence Times

Community members are invited to get to know seven local farms on Saturday during the second annual Douglas County Spring Farm Day.

Jordan Winter/Lawrence Times
Environment April 26, 2023 - 2:04 pm

Sunrise Project hosts plant sale fundraisers to support its community programs

by Jordan Winter

Sunrise Project, a Lawrence nonprofit designed to build community through social connection and food equity, is hosting its eighth annual plant sale fundraiser this month.

Molly Adams/Lawrence Times
Education April 24, 2023 - 12:25 pm

Lifelong Lawrencian finds her niche in advocacy and scholarship at KU

by Tricia Masenthin

When Cherin Russell returned to college in the spring of 2020, she wondered whether she could find success as a 30-year-old nontraditional undergraduate student at the University of Kansas.

Ken Lassman
Environment April 23, 2023 - 11:22 pm

Kaw Valley Almanac for April 24-30, 2023

by Ken Lassman

The buckeye is found in native oak hickory woodlands in the eastern third of the state and is now blooming. These pretty flowers will eventually produce hard black buckeye seeds that some people keep in their pockets for good luck.

Environment April 21, 2023 - 4:58 pm

Massive pipeline spill caused by crack created during installation, third-party review concludes

by Paul Hammel, Kansas Reflector

A third-party review of a pipeline spill that released 500,000 gallons of crude oil onto Kansas farmland and a nearby stream was caused by a crack in the metal pipe that eventually ruptured under pressure.

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