"If no one knows the importance of preserving a beautiful place, that place is not likely to be preserved."

Ansel Adams
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Hutton House
AOK Guesthouses Will Benefit Niobrara Sanctuary

Jan. 2011 - The Niobrara Sanctuary experience is incredibly inviting. There isn't anything exactly like it in this "neck of the woods". The opportunity to stay in one of two guesthouses in a wildlife sanctuary with access to 5,000 acres, miles of trails to explore, and view nature at its best in relative serenity is unique.

 

 

Soaring Over Mt. Mitchell
Soaring Mount Mitchell

November 2010 - AOK Chairman, Robert McElroy, writes about his experience flying radio-controlled airplanes high above the prairie at AOK's Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie.

 

FOTW
Kansas Roadside Wildflowers of the Week

AOK has been a longtime advocate of responsible roadside management by the Kansas Department of Transportation. Smarter practices along roadsides mean more money in the Kansas budget, as well as an increased variety of prairie plants along our roadsides. Kansas Roadside Wildflowers of the Week highlights the wildflowers that are blooming at the given time of the year, or other plants of special interest. 

 

Veloci-Turkey
Are Wild Turkeys Really Velociraptors with Feathers?

For years the "nature myth" that the rise of Wild Turkeys has caused the decline of Bobwhite Quail in Kansas has diminished the success of Wild Turkeys in the plains. Do Wild Turkey really have the appetite of a Velociraptor, and have a hunger for quail? 

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