Smokin’ prairie

  • Photo by BRAD MANGAS
    Photo by BRAD MANGAS
  • Top: Saturday’s inversiontrapped came from many sources throughout the Flint Hills, including a large controlled burn on the Flying W Ranch south of Cottonwood Falls. Left: Visibility was down to one mile across the county because of the smoke. Photo by DANTHALMANN /WCN
    Top: Saturday’s inversiontrapped came from many sources throughout the Flint Hills, including a large controlled burn on the Flying W Ranch south of Cottonwood Falls. Left: Visibility was down to one mile across the county because of the smoke. Photo by DANTHALMANN /WCN
If Washington Counties subscribe to the adage of “where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” then on Saturday evening there must have been a tremendous amount of fire somewhere.There was—in the northern Flint Hills, the Arkansas River Lowlands, the Glaciated Region, the Smoky Hills (made smokier), the Red Hills and the Osage Cuestas—pretty much all across the Sunflower State. But controlled prairie…

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