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Jim Hoy, of Cassoday, Kan, left, and his son Johs Hoy watch prairie grasses burn on the younger Hoy's Flying W Ranch near Clements, Kan., Saturday, April 16. Ranchers in the Kansas Flint Hills burn the prairie grasses every spring to help renew the pastures for cattle grazing.

Ranchers renew pastures in Kansas with the help of a little fire

By Katie Cannon, Senior Multimedia Editor

Proof to all of you out there who claim Kansas is totally flat. :)

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Comment author avatarirrert

what about the other animals that rely on praire graases..like ground nesting birds...guess they just got wiped out on those lands.

    Reply#1 - Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:12 AM EDT
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