Flint Hills Ranching & Cowboys
The Anxious Beauty of Prairie Burns
Love them or hate them, prescribed prairie burns are the most efficient method for managing grasslands and to slow woody encroachment. Without them grassland biomes become overgrown with cedars and shrubs.
Photographed in Chase, Lyon & Morris counties of Kansas.
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Check out this Prairie Talk on the woody invasion of the tallgrass prairie which I recorded for Pioneer Bluffs
Winter Ranching
Follow along with Flint Hills rancher, Ryan Arndt, tends to cattle and horses and winter blankets his land.
Branding Day at the Sauble Ranch
It's always a work day at Kansas' longest continually operating ranch near Cedar Point, Kansas
Foggy Morning Cattle Drive
Ride along as cowboys drive cattle across a fog-wrapped Flint Hills landscape toward the Bazaar cattle pens.
Winter Cattle Work at the Sauble Ranch
The Sauble Ranch is located in Chase County, southwest of Cedar Point. Established 160 yeras ago, it is probably the oldest continuously operated ranch in the state.
Crew: Dennis Hague, Susan Hague, Brad Morgan, Ethan Wessel, Chuck McLinden, Jerret McLinden, Mike Ingalls and Scott Dawson.