This T-Rex scared the snot out of me. I was alone on the path in the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays and this guy came to life. I knew I had triggered some sort of sensor a minute earlier when the screeching of birds began, but I didn’t expect the T-Rex to come [...]
Beyond Protected Beauty: Ceramic Impressions of the Wetlands An exhibition of functional and sculptural ceramic works created by the Ceramics Students at Fort Hays State University in response to the Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area. Friday, November 5 — 7:00pm Exhibition Opening Celebration (KWEC open to the public to view FHSU ceramics pieces and enjoy light [...]
The George Stumps Nature Trail is at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center at Cheyenne Bottoms. The metal work on this sign and other signs at the KWEC is by B & B Metal Arts – Bruce and Brent Bitter – of Hoisington.
Last Monday, my brother and mother and I went to Newton from Great Bend. On the return trip, we had hoped to visit the Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson. We had forgotten that it was a Monday. I think every museum in the state of Kansas is closed on Mondays. But, Dave has long wanted [...]
At Cheyenne Bottoms last Sunday there were flocks of pelicans. (I need a better telephoto lens on my point and shoot.)
The diversion dam at Dundee diverts water from the Arkansas River to Cheyenne Bottoms.
‘Ghost Bird,’ story of extinction and hope, to be shown at Kansas Wetlands Education Center HAYS, Kan. — Sightings and a video a few years ago gave ornithologists hope that a bird believed extinct since the 1940s was still alive. But no one since has found an ivory billed woodpecker in the swamps of Arkansas, [...]
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