Bruce Breslow banters with his audience as he casually waves a pair of colored glass rods through the 1400 degree flame of a propane heater until the glass begins to melt, then allows it to drool into a graphite mold. With a couple of deft spins of the rods, he creates a swirl effect, then
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Now that you’ve seen the tallgrass prairies of Iowa and Kansas, I find it only fitting that you take a gander at the shortgrass prairies of western Kansas. (I know, I got bit carried away with the prairie theme, but what do you expect from a girl from the West Coast who grew up reading
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The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is located in northern Chase County, Kansas (about 90 miles south of Manhattan, where my Swiss ancestors had a farm) in the eastern half of the state. The preserve protects almost 11,000 acres (the majority of the remaining tallgrass prairie in the U.S.) of the diverse prairie ecosystem. More than
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