Field journal, v4159
Page 931
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Transcription
Aug. 13, 1957 Dr. E.R. Hall, Chester Brown and I inspected the proposed Flint Hills long grass area on the west side of the new Kansas Turnpike southwest of Emporia, as described in 'Halls letter and included in the Belton Report. About midway of the area there is an overhead pass and cattle pens on the east side. The overpass provides access from the Turnpike to the Flint Hills area but passage is locked. Hall points out that there is a potential entrance, already provided so that people traveling the Turnpike could readily get into the area. He drove south to the first exit then north past Matfield Green to Bazaar, thence south some 4 or 5 miles into the area and diagonally northeastward across it following part of the time a service road for a gas pipeline. We crossed several small streams generally with pools of water but very little if any flowing. The area is!