Mar 16, 2016 · The largest sand sheet in Kansas, the Great Bend Sand Prairie (fig. 1), was chosen for detailed paleoenvironmental and geomorphic investigations because of its potential to provide significant baseline data for future studies.

The 10,086-acre Sandhills Ranch is one of the largest properties along the Arkansas River in Kansas. Located in Edwards, Ford and Kiowa counties, it's in the heart of the Great Bend Sand Prairie ecoregion, where much of the original habitat …

Jul 11, 2014 · Great Bend Sand Prairie Ecosystem. The newest addition to the Kansas Ecosystem page on the Kansas Wildlife Federation website is the Great Bend Sand Prairie, a component of the Central Great Plains. To view it click on http://www.kswildlife.org/ww/kansas-ecosystems/ and scroll down to “Great Bend Sand Prairie”. You can read about it and ...

Potential Natural Vegetation: Sandsage prairie: sand sagebrush, sand bluestem, prairie sandreed, and little bluestem. This community type sometimes is called sandsage steppe due to the presence of a dominant shrub, however, sandsage prairie is the name most frequently used in …

Mar 16, 2016 · Geomorphic research on the Great Bend Sand Prairie, a large sand sheet in south-central Kansas, indicates that two late Quaternary stratigraphic units occur in the region. The oldest deposits are late Wisconsinan, and the youngest are Holocene.

Great Bend Sand Prairie Book Released LAWRENCE--Sand dunes in south-central Kansas formed within the last 1,000 years, much more recently than previously thought. That means the land where the dunes are located is susceptible to even small changes in climate, according to a new book published by the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the ...

It’s not often the opportunity to conserve more than 15 square miles of contiguous prairie arises in Kansas. So, The Nature Conservancy jumped at the chance upon learning the 10,086-acre Sandhills Ranch in Kiowa, Edwards and Ford counties was coming on the market.

Sand Hills State Park. 4207 E 56th Ave, Hutchinson, KS 67502. Located near Hutchinson in Reno County, the park features excellent trails that wind through 1,123 acres of sand dunes, native prairie, wetlands, and woodlands. Sand Hills State Park offers five horse-friendly trails, varying from 1.2 to 3.8 miles.

Sand dunes are characteristic of two grassland types in Kansas: the sand prairie and the sandsage prairie. In Kansas, areas of sand prairie are found in the Arkansas River Low-

The undulating to rolling sand plains of the Great Bend Sand Prairie are a contrast to the loess-mantled regions of 27a and 27b. A mantle of windblown sand, sandy outwash, and dunes supports a potential natural vegetation of sand prairie bunchgrass.