STRONG CITY — Wendy Lauritzen, superintendent of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve north of Strong City, says the new visitor center at the national park has two purposes: To tell the ...

TALLGRASS PRAIRIE NATIONAL PRESERVE — For the past dozen years, ... "With the visitor center and opening new trails, we could get it up to 35,000 a year pretty easily," Lauritzen said.

The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve provides settings to view unspoiled prairie and to learn about its ecology and its history.At the center of the area operated by the National Park Service ...

— -- Tallgrass prairie once covered 170 million acres of North America. Today, less than 4% remains. Visitors can enjoy a large portion of the remainder at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in ...

Tallgrass prairie once covered 170 million acres of North America. Today, less than 4% remains. Visitors can enjoy a large portion of the remainder at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve.

Hikes at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve include pathways that cover 40 miles. ... It attracts 22,000 visitors a year. Hiking trails are open every day, 24/7.

It's easy to envision the world that pioneers encountered while looking at a herd of bison grazing at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in east-central Kansas. IE 11 is not supported.

Tallgrass prairie once covered 140 million acres of North America, including much of the Midwest. But only 4 percent of that ecosystem remains, wiped out by more than 150 years of human settlement ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — U.S Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was making a two-day visit to Kansas to dedicate a visitors' center at the only national park designed to protecting the tallgrass ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — U.S Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was making a two-day visit to Kansas to dedicate a visitors' center at the only national park designed to protecting the tallgrass ...