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Old 05-05-2010, 04:51 PM
 
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When is the best time of year to visit the Flint Hills region? I am especially interested in wildflowers. Thanks!
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Old 05-05-2010, 06:57 PM
 
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The Spring time during the burns is neat, after that the hills are emerald green and full of wild flowers during the summer which is beautiful. The fall is neat as well, because just like the trees change color the plants on the prairie turn purple, gold, etc. Really there is something unique about each season but for me it would be late spring/early summer with the green and wild flowers.
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Old 05-05-2010, 08:01 PM
 
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The Spring time during the burns is neat, after that the hills are emerald green and full of wild flowers during the summer which is beautiful. The fall is neat as well, because just like the trees change color the plants on the prairie turn purple, gold, etc. Really there is something unique about each season but for me it would be late spring/early summer with the green and wild flowers.
Ditto!
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Old 05-05-2010, 08:55 PM
 
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I'm always eager to give the Flint Hills love:

Tallgrass Prairie Preserve - Photo Gallery - National Geographic Magazine

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But once I got up in the air, I was able to see an incredible myriad pattern of wonderfully poetic contours. I saw beautiful repetitive patterns of hills and ravines cut by flint outcroppings that were once at the bottom of the old Permian Sea. Geology always comes to life from the air, where things that sounded obtuse and arcane in the classroom reveal themselves in living waves of earth and rock. Seeing it all in the spring was even more of a treat. People never associate such green lushness with Kansas. Ireland, maybe, but certainly not Kansas.






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Old 05-08-2010, 04:11 PM
 
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Athfo, thanks so much for posting the videos! Beautiful! a couple brought me to tears.... I hike a lot in the Everglades and am well aware of subtle beauty and having to get down close to the ground to look at individual plants and see the amazing variety of species if you take the time and effort to look. Spring was mentioned as a good time to visit - I've seen areas burned (pine rocklands in ENP are burned by ENP fire cache) - prescribed burning - so I am more interested in seeing blazing colors of wildflowers. Would this be in April? or May? early, mid, late?
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Old 05-08-2010, 04:19 PM
 
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BTW, a few months ago I read William Least Heat~Moon's book: PrairyErth (a deep map). I really enjoyed it.
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