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Finding Splendor in the Tallgrass at One Of Our Newest National Parks.(Brief Article)

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From: National Wildlife
Date: 20001201
Author:Christian, Shirley

Don Clark turns to the writings of early-twentieth-century author Willa Cather for words to describe his workplace. Leading visitors into the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in east-central Kansas, the park ranger says he feels like the boy from the East who, in the opening chapter of one of Cather's novels, My cntonia, relates a feeling of being "erased, blotted out" between the prairie earth and the prairie sky.

The 10,894 acres of undulating land at the tallgrass preserve not only provide that fictional experience in real life but also protect a big swath of one of the ...

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