Flint Hills
The largest remaining expanse of tallgrass prairie in North America, rolling across eastern Kansas.
Overview
The Flint Hills are a region of rolling hills running north to south through eastern Kansas (and into Oklahoma), home to the largest remaining swath of tallgrass prairie in North America. Named for the bands of chert (flint) in their limestone bedrock, the hills' rocky, shallow soils proved too difficult to plow, sparing this vast grassland from the cultivation that destroyed nearly all the rest of the continent's tallgrass prairie.
Today the Flint Hills are a working ranching landscape and a stronghold of prairie biodiversity, where ranchers continue the ancient prairie rhythms of grazing and fire — the dramatic spring burns that renew the grass and sustain the ecosystem. Vast, open, and rippling with grass beneath enormous skies, the Flint Hills offer one of the last places to experience the immensity of the original American prairie.
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