Abstract

Efforts to establish some sort of national prairie park go back to the 1920s. In 1930 Victor E. Shelford of the University of Illinois proposed that a large area of grassland on the Nebraska-South Dakota border be taken into the national park system. His suggestion went unheeded, and it was not until the later 1950s that interest again began to grow

Keywords:

• tallgrass,
• prairie,
• plains,
• Flint Hills,
• Kansas,
• National parks,
• preserves,
• native,
• history,
• legislation,
• public,
• private,
• partnership,
• care,
• folklife