The Kansas Flint Hills is an area of rangeland and tall-grass prairie.
All types of beef cattle from Black Angus and Charolais to Herefords graze on the bluestem grass in Kansas' Flint Hills region. Kansas beef shows up in restaurants that serve top-quality steaks across the nation.
Quarter horses are popular in the Flint Hills and are used in herding the cattle. There is quarter horse racing at Eureka Downs. The races started in 1872.
The pronghorn antelope was re-introduced into the Flint Hills in the 1970s and the decades since then. I remember the thrill of seeing one as I drove the Kansas Turnpike through the hills.
You can see over 200 head of bison at the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge. Before the settlers came, over 80 million buffalo roamed the tall grass prairies where grasses grew over 8 and 9 feet tall.
Most people think of Utah and the far west for wild horses, but some mustangs rescued from those areas now live wild in the Kansas Flint Hills.
Thanks for the list of animals to see in the Flint hills. H5
I'd love to see these animals and the Flint hills, too!
select one here...