Prairie Wings - Winter 2012 / Spring 2013 Issue
In This Issue
- Message from the President
- Contents
- New Trustees Join AOK Leadership
- Profile of a Great Wildlife Research Scientist, Conservationist and Sportsman: Robert J. Robel by Ron Klataske
- Potential Benefits of Patch Burning for Prairie-chickens by Bill Browning
- Kansas Supreme Court Rules Favorably for the Flint Hills by Dick Seaton
- Wonderful Things Happen in the Flint Hills
- Reflections on a Culture Renowned for Horsemanship and a New Opportunity to Preserve Prairie by Bill Browning
- The Good, the Bad (Wasteful and Ugly) & Extraordinarily Beautiful: Roadside Management in Kansas by Ron Klataske
- The Stealth War on Quail & Songbird Habitat — and on Wildflowers, Native Shrubs and Beneficial Pollinating Insects by Ron Klataske
- Birds of Kansas: A “Texas bird” joins the ranks
- Owls: Marvels of Life, Countless Legends, and here Expressions of Love by Charles Hammer
- Red Foxes in the Backyard, Blue Darters in the Trees by Neil Weatherhogg
- Many dramas of nature are revealed in our backyards
- Wildlife Viewing from the Kitchen Window — At the Hutton Niobrara Ranch Wildlife Sanctuary by Ron Klataske
- AOK Philanthropy
- The Destruction of Native Sandhills Grasslands: A Rancher’s Viewpoint by Wes Sandall
- Jan Garton and the Campaign to Save Cheyenne Bottoms by Seliesa Pembleton
- An Audubon of Kansas Position: Safeguards for Whooping Cranes Need to be Restored by Ron Klataske
- Rediscovering the Prairies and Great Plains, Sharing the Nature of Kansas and Nebraska by Ron Klataske
- AOK Applauds Appeals Court Decision: Kansas Court of Appeals Supports Position of Landowners Hosting Reintroduction of Black-footed Ferrets
- “Silent Spring” Revisited by Ron Klataske
- Prairie Dog Colony Reestablished at AOK’s Niobrara Sanctuary by Ron Klataske
- Are Ethanol Subsidies and Mandates a Fool’s Errand? by Robert T. McElroy
- A Kansas Native Led the Politically-Challenging Campaign to Create the Arctic Wildlife Range/Refuge by Dick Seaton