Once the hub of outdoor sporting activity, an abandoned and overgrown baseball field sits directly above hollow ground from undermining in Picher, Ok. Officials closed the park a few years after it was constructed out of concern that the ground was in danger of collapsing.
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"I think that if there is one environmental lesson to be learned that the last 20, 30, or 40 years have taught us is that its a hell of a lot easier to prevent a problem than it is to fix it once you've got it" —Rex Buchanan, associate director of the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence
March 20, 2007
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