Kansas farms have expanded their operations and are now bigger than ever, which has led to an economic boom. But that also means fewer farmers, and that has contributed to depopulation in rural parts of the state that were socially isolated to begin with.
The dry weather is taking a toll on many plants and trees, but it has created ideal conditions for one of the most beautiful prairie wildflowers: the gentian.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Prairie Park Nature Center on Saturday celebrated 25 years of preserving local wildlife and native species in Lawrence.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Students in a KU architecture class on Saturday celebrated a new pavilion they designed at Prairie Park Nature Center using old road signs and other repurposed materials.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Fall is coming, and so are the monarch butterflies. Two upcoming Lawrence events will provide hands-on opportunities to learn about monarchs and contribute to their conservation efforts.
More than 90% of Kansas is in drought right now, but prairie plant roots go deep and have developed strategies to survive, as evidenced by this field where sunflowers, goldenrods and blue sage are thriving.
Lawrence’s Prairie Park Nature Center is turning 25 years old, and the community is invited to its birthday party.
Here are Jerusalem artichoke blooms, from green flower buds to fully open, pollinated by a sweat bee among its disk flowers.
A party complete with a silent disco in Lawrence will soon celebrate seven “artist-adventurer teams” who created original works documenting adventures in Douglas County’s open lands.
Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
A Kansas hog farmer’s campaign to convince the courts he had a right to install a livestock sewage pipeline along a public road in the right-of-way on neighbors’ property without permission has come to an end in state courts.
