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A new round of conservation grants will help restore riverbanks on the Kaw, preserve grave markers at a 169-year-old cemetery in Lecompton and remove trees from
Local ecologists and conservationists like Courtney Masterson are returning local land to its native habitat, one parcel at a time.
Historical societies in Douglas County are starting to think about how they can work together in new ways and reach more students and underrepresented groups in
The weather is just outstanding after that rain earlier in the week. The fall colors are really popping now!
photo by: Elvyn Jones The Black Jack Battlefield Board of Trustees is looking to undertake a series of improvements at the site east of Baldwin City. Included among them is a visitor center that would be built near the Robert Hall Pearson farmstead, pictured on April 24, 2021, which is also part of the park. Jonathan Hart, the chairman of Black Jack Battlefield’s board of trustees, wants to restore the historic site to a condition that John Brown, Henry Clay Pate and the other men who fought there in 1856 would recognize. The Battle of Black Jack on June 2, 1856, marked an escalation in th...