Flint Hills rancher works to restore biodiversity of imperiled Kansas tallgrass prairie ecosystems
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY — About 15 years ago, Flint Hills rancher Bill Sproul was given an oak sapling, sprouted from an acorn dropped beneath the tree where conservationist Aldo Leopold sat and wrote his seminal 1949 collection of essays, “A Sand County Almanac.” Sproul brought the sapling home to his ranch near Sedan and planted it, […]