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Free State Prairie
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Lawrence Free State High School
Our Prairie
This unique tallgrass prairie restoration experiment connects high school and university students, teachers, and scientists through research, education, restoration, and community engagement.
Prairie work fall 2020
Helen teaches FSHS and Blue Valley students
Dr. Ben Sikes teaching FSHS students about soil science
Prairie work fall 2020
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For an 2024 overview of Free State Prairie, see a paper we published:
Prairie Research in Action
Film created by Free State High School biology teacher, Kelly Barah
Center for Undergraduate Research
University of Kansas
“What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one’s own land?”
-Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
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