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Cimarron National Grassland is a National Grassland located in Morton County, Kansas, United States, with a very small part extending eastward into Stevens County.Cimarron National Grassland is located near Comanche National Grassland which is across the border in Colorado.The grassland is administered by the Forest Service together with the Pike and San Isabel National Forests and the Comanche National Grassland, from common headquarters located in Pueblo, Colorado.There are local ranger district offices in Elkhart, Kansas.
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Cimarron National Grassland is a National Grassland located in Morton County, Kansas, United States, with a very small part extending eastward into Stevens County. Cimarron National Grassland is located near Comanche National Grassland which is across the border in Colorado. The grassland is administered by the Forest Service together with the Pike and San Isabel National Forests and the Comanche National Grassland, from common headquarters located in Pueblo, Colorado. There are local ranger district offices in Elkhart, Kansas. The grassland is the largest area of public land in the state of Kansas.
Video of Cimarron National Grassland, KS from Shari G.
Watch the Starlings nestle down in the dry grasses for the night.
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Shari G.'s Review on The Dyrt:
▶︎ Unexpected Beauty
The Cimarron Grassland is an amazing part of the Great Plains ecosystem and definitely worth a look when driving through the southwest corner of Kansas. It will not be what you’re expecting. Just off the park driving tour road, this little campground sits between small ponds in a larger wetland area within the Cimarron River. Each site is spacious with the usual picnic table, fire ring, and tent pad. Vault toilets and potable drinking water are available all year round, we just had to wait for the faucet to thaw after freezing up overnight.
The area is fantastic for bird lovers, and we watched flocks of Starlings tuck themselves into the marsh grasses for the night. Raptors, warblers, and many other bird species use the area as a fly-over stop during migration. Hiking is close by on the Sante Fe Trail which follows the original path of the old wagon trail through the plains, biking and other motorized recreational vehicles are allowed in certain areas. While the terrain might not be challenging, the sandy soil makes any long walk or ride just a little bit more difficult.
The nearby town of Elkhart affords the usual amenities for groceries, gas, and a few restaurants. The National Grassland office is also in town if you want more information about the area.
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Video of Cimarron National Grassland, KS from Shari G.
A quick 360 of the campground.
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Shari G.'s Review on The Dyrt:
▶︎ Unexpected Beauty
The Cimarron Grassland is an amazing part of the Great Plains ecosystem and definitely worth a look when driving through the southwest corner of Kansas. It will not be what you’re expecting. Just off the park driving tour road, this little campground sits between small ponds in a larger wetland area within the Cimarron River. Each site is spacious with the usual picnic table, fire ring, and tent pad. Vault toilets and potable drinking water are available all year round, we just had to wait for the faucet to thaw after freezing up overnight.
The area is fantastic for bird lovers, and we watched flocks of Starlings tuck themselves into the marsh grasses for the night. Raptors, warblers, and many other bird species use the area as a fly-over stop during migration. Hiking is close by on the Sante Fe Trail which follows the original path of the old wagon trail through the plains, biking and other motorized recreational vehicles are allowed in certain areas. While the terrain might not be challenging, the sandy soil makes any long walk or ride just a little bit more difficult.
The nearby town of Elkhart affords the usual amenities for groceries, gas, and a few restaurants. The National Grassland office is also in town if you want more information about the area.
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Colorado - Kansas - Oklahoma State Tripoint Panoramic View
This state tripoint was accessed via dirt road Road A from Elkhart, KS.
The location of this video is just over the Colorado - Kansas state line in Kansas, in the Cimarron National Grassland. The video starts looking south at the tripoint windmill marker and the manhole size plate tripoint marker in the road. Everything south of the road is Oklahoma. Video pans counter-clockwise toward the Kansas - Oklahoma state line, the dirt road, then the Kansas area, which is the Cimarron National Grassland. About half way through, it is the Colorado - Kansas state line along the fence, and Colorado on other side of fence. Video wrap with the Colorado - Oklahoma state line along the dirt road and back to the tripoint markers.
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CIMARRON VALLEY RANCH
Spreading over 45,000 contiguous acres in Southeast Colorado rests the Cimarron Valley Ranch, located between Elkhart, Kansas and Keyes, Oklahoma. Over 70 square miles of cattle ranch includes approximately 22 miles of the historic Cimarron River running from Oklahoma into Colorado, coming within two miles of bridging the Comanche National Grasslands to the Cimarron National Grasslands in Kansas. These two national grasslands, along with state land in Oklahoma, connects this ranch to almost a million acres of public land. The Cimarron Valley Ranch truly offers incredible diversity in regard to terrain, wildlife, livestock grazing, income opportunities and more.
Overview: This is an extremely rare opportunity to own a ranch that currently supports 1,600 mother cows while managing some of the best hunting in the country. The river bottom on this ranch averages just under a mile wide for the entire length of the ranch (22 miles) providing excellent soils, water, rotational grazing, excellent habitat and grass. This mega-ranch is very diverse with wild game and is inhabited by Mule Deer, Rocky Mountain Elk, White-tailed Deer, Rio Grande Turkeys, Bobwhite Quail, Blue Quail, and Prairie Chicken. It is not unlikely to hunt bugling elk with over-the-counter licenses the same day as working dogs on large coveys of bobwhite and blue quail.
Cattle Operation: Currently the ranch has over 1,600 mother cows and there is abundant grass and excellent water. The cattle operation is under excellent management and the program is about stewardship and balance between the improvement of wildlife habitat and the management and improvement of cattle grazing resources. The ranch is very well-watered, and the fences and working facilities are in good condition. The river bottom and the diversity of the landscape allow for rotational grazing at its finest. With an excellent mix of grasses during all seasons and access to running calves on wheat pasture and triticale, this operation will put excellent pounds of gain on cattle. The turn-key headquarters has good holding corrals, ranch manager facilities, barns, sheds and cattle working facilities.
Water: The ranch is rich in water and provides sustainability for game and livestock alike. Currently 10 pivots are in place with quality water supply, and 10 additional pivots are approved with permits for doubling the tillable crop ground to increase the carrying capacity to 2,000 head. Over 40 stock tanks are littered throughout the ranch and The Cimarron River runs underground through most of the property, with watering holes and ponds littered along the river bottom.
Around Kansas - We Kan! Awards - June 15, 2016
(Frank) It's Wednesday right. Yes it is, because we're here. Thanks for watching this. Anyway, we have kind of a cool story here; it's not a long story at all. But, it's really more of one that honors a lot of Kansans that are volunteers and do a lot of good work. (Deb) This is what I love most about Kansas. And the We Kan! Awards with the Kansas Sampler Foundation. God bless Marci Penner. We've mentioned her many times, but we could talk about her every week and it wouldn't be enough to highlight. You know this is what makes Kansas such a great state. People do stuff. They just do it. They don't wait for a sunny day, they don't wait for a program to come from Washington or somewhere to say this is what we're going to do, they don't wait, they just do it. They see stuff that needs to get done, and they just do it. (Frank) And that's why it's We Kan!, with a K. Not we can, but We Kan! (Deb) Yes. That was brilliant marketing wasn't it. It was. (Frank) Yes. Well, and of course what we're really talking about, is because you know Marci has for years produced the Kansas Sampler Festival all around the state, and she can't do it by herself. It really takes a lot of people stepping up to volunteer, to make everything happen. I mean, put it together. It's a huge undertaking. (Deb) It is, and what the festival itself promotes of course, and the We Kan! Awards is that there are people doing things all over the state, all the time. And you know, that was the idea behind the festival to begin with is that people need to know about the cool stuff that people are always doing. And that's one of the things that the We Kan! Awards do. And so I think it's just so important and we're just so pleased to have the opportunity to share those people with you today and you're going to love seeing the segment. But go see them. You know, that's what it's all about. Go see these folks. You know it's not good enough to just say, Oh, that's great, but go see them and see what they're doing. See what they're working so hard to make happen in their rural communities, so that's what we want you to do. That's your call to action today. (Frank) Yes, so congratulations to all the We Kan! Award winners. (Deb) Congratulations. Absolutely. (Frank) The 24th annual We Kan! Awards were announced May 7, 2016 at the Kansas Sampler Festival in Winfield. The awards are presented by the Kansas Sampler Foundation as appreciation for dedicated work in helping preserve and sustain rural culture. Foundation Director Marci Penner said, Each year it is our pleasure to recognize ten people who do a great deal to keep our state moving forward. The 2016 award winners are Jane Brophy, Cheering for Chanute (Chanute Area Chamber of Commerce and Office of Tourism); Shari Butler, Passion for the Grassland (Cimarron National Grassland, Elkhart); Sarah Green, Doing Democracy (Wichita); Bridgette Jobe, Seeing the Big Picture (Kansas City KS Convention & Visitors Bureau); Liz King, Designed Generosity (Park City, UT); Ken and Shirley McClintock, Making History Delicious (Trail Days Cafe and Museum, Council Grove); Larry and Jan Olson, Stumpin' for RV Parks and Campgrounds (Kansas RV Parks & Travel, Hill City); Sue Stringer, Toutin' Kansas! (KDWPT Kansas Byways & Agritourism, Topeka); Andrea Springer and Steve Snook, Good Thinkers for Kansas (Hutchinson); Adam Wagner, You've Been Good for Kansas (Twilight Theatre, Greensburg). The Awards plates are made by Elk Falls Pottery. We at Around Kansas want to extend our congratulations and thanks to all these folks who work so hard to keep their rural communities alive and thriving!
Around Kansas - Prairie Dogs - Sept. 23, 2015
(Frank) Nap time over, we're back. (Deb) OK, when I moved to Kansas, I had never seen a prairie dog until I moved to Kansas. So, all those great things that you associate with the West and moving west, I had not seen. And I have to tell you nothing has fascinated me more than the prairie dogs. When we went even farther west, we had friends visiting from back east, went to Little Big Horn, western Kansas, we did everything. Go to Devil's Tower. Devil's Tower has this huge Prairie Dog Town and they are not skittish like many of the prairie dogs in western Kansas because Kansas prairie dogs get shot at. So, the ones up at Devil's Tower where it is a
protected environment, they can't shoot at 'em cause it's a National Park and all that good stuff. They're not skittish. Everybody's looking at Devil's Tower and they're like, Oh wow! And I'm over here with the prairie dogs. They're the funniest little animal because you know they're standing up there, and keeping watch and then it's like, oh phone call, and they just jump down you know, back into the hole. Supper's burning! They're just the funniest little creatures. (Frank) Can you eat 'em? (Deb) You can. And you know, people who were coming over the wagon trains, they talk about those little dogs more than any other creature. Because it was fascinating
to them too. And yea, if they couldn't find enough game, they did eat 'em. I've never had one myself, I don't know, don't have any prairie dog recipes. You might share some if you've got 'em. But they can be eaten. (Frank) On your way to Dodge City, if you run over one, like stop and have a little road kill. (Deb) Yea, a little. Roast that one on the side of the road, or something. There's a plan. (Frank) OK. (Deb) Something else for the menu. Let's take a look at those little creatures. Black-tailed prairie dogs, named for their black-tipped tails and dog-like bark, once lived throughout the Great Plains in towns that extended for miles and contained hundreds of thousands of individuals. The rodents excavate a
complex underground system of tunnels and rooms that may be as deep as 15 feet with horizontal tunnels reaching 10-15 feet long. The soil is pushed to the surface to create numerous mounds. They forage throughout the day with sentinels sitting upright, standing guard as others feed. When a predator is sighted, the sentinel barks and the entire colony scampers to their protective burrows. Abandoned burrows provide homes for spiders, salamanders, toads, ornate box turtles, snakes and burrowing owls. Black-tailed prairie dogs live on the High Plains from northern Mexico to southern Canada. They are found in short grass prairies and rangelands of the western half of Kansas. In the spring, females produce a single litter of 2-10 pups. They may live up to 8 years. Black-tailed prairie dogs feed primarily on green vegetation, including grasses, seeds, stems and the occasional insect. According to the Parks and Wildlife office in Pratt, Kansas, there is no closed hunting season on prairie dogs and no license is required for Kansas residents. There is also no bag limit. A license is
required for non-residents. Andy Chappell, wildlife biologist at the
Cimarron National Grasslands, said that plague sweeps through the prairie dog population periodically. The last one occurred a couple of years ago, said Andy, and spread like wildfire, leaving less than two thousand acres of prairie dog towns throughout the more than one hundred thousand acre park. Other animals, like coyotes who feed on the animals, seem unaffected by the disease. The Cimarron National Grasslands boasts not only prairie dogs but also some stunning western views, truly one of our state's treasures. Their offices are in Elkhart, in southwestern Kansas, so give
them a call and plan a visit.
Lesser Prairie-Chicken
Lesser Prairie-Chickens on lek at Cimarron Grasslands near Elkhart, KS
Santa Fe Trail Historical Marker Scenic Overlook Panoramic View
This scenic overlook is around a Santa Fe Trail historic marker in Cimarron National Grassland. It is also a rest area on KS-27 near Elkhart.
Video starts at the historical marker and parking area along KS-27. It pans clockwise with KS-27 coming into view. Rest of video is the grassland area.
2010trip19 - Cimarron Grasslands
view of the Cimarron Grasslands near Elkart, Kansas.
Prairie Dog Hunting: 2014 Kansas Prairie Dog Kills
This video was taken in Kansas during 2014 during one of our recent prairie dog hunts. Check out our clients shooting prairie dogs. For more on prairie dog hunts in Kansas visit our site 10GaugeOutfitters.com.
Reflections on Kansas Water Issues
Rex Buchanan, the former director of the Kansas Geological Survey, will narrow our scope to the region and speak to regional water issues.
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