by Dave | Apr 11, 2014 | Prairie Burn
Guy Prior hoses down the grasses close to his home and shop to help prevent a dangerous spread of the prairie burn.
by Dave | May 2, 2011 | Prairie Burn
Lyon County, Kansas
by Dave | May 2, 2011 | Prairie Burn
Lyon County, Kansas
by Dave | Apr 14, 2010 | Flint Hills, Prairie Burn
In the Flint Hills of Morris County, Kansas
by Dave | Apr 13, 2010 | Flint Hills, Prairie Burn
Seasonal range burns help maintain the prairie ecosystem. This is photographed in the Flint Hills of Morris County, Kansas
by Dave | Apr 11, 2010 | Flint Hills, Prairie Burn
Morris County, Kansas
by Dave | May 7, 2009 | Flint Hills, Prairie Burn
Flint Hills, Chase County, Kansas – Ranchers prepare to burn a field of dry grass, as the spring prairie burns continue. That’s a water truck in the foreground.
by Dave | Apr 12, 2009 | Flint Hills, Landscape, Prairie Burn, Spring
Chase County, Kansas
by Dave | Apr 12, 2009 | Flint Hills, Landscape, Prairie Burn, Soft Lights, Spring
Chase County, Kansas – Smoke from a prairie-burn eclipses the sun and shrouds the landscape in soot, abstracting our view of the Flint Hills. Though it’s mid-afternoon on very bright day, it looks more like dusk.
by Dave | Apr 11, 2009 | Flint Hills, Human, Landscape, Prairie Burn, Spring
Chase County, Kansas – Dan Bacon is setting flame to tallgrass along the roadside. He moves quickly. The wind is at his back, the fire chasing him as it spreads rapidly in the dry cover. The torch he pulls is fueled with a mixture of gasoline and diesel. He father,...