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Shitmotherfuckinggoddammit ( Read more... )

Cattywompous!Chris, one of our hourly workers, and I were meeting up with a postdoc named Jana at her research site. As soon as we got out of the truck, she told us, “You’re bad luck! Go away.” The roof of one of her ~10 ft^2 rainfall manipulation plots was lifted way up at one corner. Just then, another roof rose up off its frame, tumbled into ( Read more... )

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This weekend, some of us members of Students for Environmental Action (SEA) at K-State went camping at a wind farm in southeast Kansas. It's on the ranch of a guy named Pete Ferrell. Now I'm already inclined to support wind farms in the Flint Hills (except in the really sensitive area designated "Heart of the Flint Hills"). So I didn't feel any ( Read more... )

About a month ago, I participated in my first perscribed burn at the Konza Prairie Biological Station ( Read more... )

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If you take the Flint Hills Scenic Byway to get to Manhattan, the drive is surreal. The sky was as impenetrably black as it had been on the interstate; but without the cacophony of automobile lights reflecting on metal and concrete, the solid black expanse was pierced with stars. As I approached the sharp left turn by which Highway 177 skirts the ( Read more... )

I’ve been looking forward to my life as an 8-to-5 working girl for a couple years-to a time when I wouldn’t bring homework and worry back with me in the evening. When cranking my intellectual wheels was what I did DURING my “official” time, whereas in college your official time is spent in class, and you have to research and write your papers ON ( Read more... )

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