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Kansas Tallgrass Prairie

From Environment News Service 
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/

AmeriScan: March 3, 1999
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/mar99/1999L-03-03-09.html

>KANSAS TALLGRASS PRAIRIE: A PRESERVE, NOT A RANCH

>The National Park Service is accepting comments on its draft management 
>plan for the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve until Friday. The 
>Kansas Audubon Council says the preserve could provide excellent nesting 
>and brood habitat for grassland birds such as the greater prairie 
>chicken. Restoring bison, elk, pronghorn antelope and other wildlife 
>would also offer a attraction for preserve visitors in the future. Ron 
>Klataske, director of the Kansas Audubon Council says the Park Service's 
>draft plan places too little emphasis on restoration of native plants 
>and animals, the Council says, and too much emphasis on conventional 
>cattle grazing operations. The plan would devote less than one-tenth of 
>the preserve to the reintroduction of bison and fails to even mention 
>the pronghorn antelope or elk, other native grazers of the Kansas 
>prairie. Public comments are welcome to March 5. Contact: Tallgrass 
>Prairie National Preserve, National Park Service Office, PO Box 585, 226 
>Broadway, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas 66845. You can also submit comments 
>from the Park Service's Web site at: 
>http://www.nps.gov/tapr/altcom3.html 

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