Central Kansas Library System

Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little harder, George Frazier suggests, and you can find the last places where tenacious stretches of prairie, forest, and wetland cheat death and incubate the DNA of lost, wild America. Documenting three years spent roaming...

Eleven essays explore the state's natural phenomena of weather, land, water, plant life, and wildlife.

Provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of more than 150 different animals and plants.

Explores the outdoors and teaches about a variety of plants and animals with over sixty suggested activities.