Wichita — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to buy easements on up to 1 million acres of intact, native tallgrass prairie in Kansas to establish a conservation area.
The goal of the proposed Flint Hills Legacy Conservation Area Initiative would be to maintain wildlife habitat. The agency says parts of the Flint Hills are being lost to commercial and residential development.
The voluntary easement program would cover parts of 14 counties.
Hearings are planned next week in Alma, Wichita and Cottonwood Falls to solicit comments and answer questions from the public.
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straightforward (anonymous) says…
Why not? We have all this extra money lying around.
wysiwyg69 (anonymous) says…
The feds have no money, so, they get a loan from the federal reserve and buy it, then sell it to China, then pay off the loan and take a trillion dollar hit on the loss. Effing geniuses!
quimby (anonymous) says…
I'm fully supportive of this - A great gift to future generations.
Snarkiness will get you nowhere.
wysiwyg69 (anonymous) says…
a gift to future generations along with the debt that goes along with it, good god people, WAKE UP.
honeychild (Mel Briscoe) says…
^^^^ co-sign quimby.
Yawnmower (anonymous) says…
And I'm seeking easement on 1 million dollars from Austin Powers. Neither of us are going to get what we want because its a pipe dream.
merrill (anonymous) says…
Better to buying Flint Hills Land than:
The republican party are masters at putting millions upon millions upon millions of people out of work. All they do with a remarkable degree of consistency is wreck the economy,initiate huge movements of shipping jobs abroad aka the Reagan-Bush Global Economy and try to wreck social security and medicare.
Is there a definite pattern? Absolutely!
1. The Reagan/ Bush Home Loan Scandal
http://rationalrevolution0.tripod.com...
2. The Bush/Cheney Home Loan Scandal
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archiv...
3. What did Bush and Henry Paulson do with the bail out money?
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/10...
4. Why did GW Bush Lie About Social Security?( This would cost taxpayers $4 trillion and wreck the economy)
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archiv...
puddleglum (anonymous) says…
go-bama!
like gObama
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…
The linkbot has woken. Fear his mad copy/paste skillz!
JackRipper (anonymous) says…
Thank God, let's hope the gov buys up more land and preserve it especially if the crap building build west of Manhattan in the hills spreads like the cancer that hit Lawrence.
riverdrifter (anonymous) says…
Since many large tracts of Flint Hills acreage is owned by greedy, absentee and corporate landowners (see the Bass Bros.) who burn the pastures every single year and then over-graze them, I'm for it.
straightforward (anonymous) says…
So because private individuals/corporations own land, the government should too? Where's the logic in that?
This sort of "preservation" was a leading cause in driving up real estate values in California. Look at any map and observe all the protected areas surrounding Los Angeles and San Francisco. It artificially inflates land prices making it impossible for average Joes to afford a home unless some bank gives them a neg-am loan.
And Merrill, I thought people always said Bush was an idiot. If he has gotten away with all that then he must not be as stupid is they think.