{"id":1062,"date":"2011-03-19T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:01:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:01:56","slug":"tallgrass-prairie-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Tallgrass Prairie Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5535968449\/\" title=\"IMG_4916 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4916\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5535968449_2aae80752e-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week I took a day off and the family drove up to Pawhuska, Oklahoma to visit the Tallgrass Praire Preserve owned by the Nature Conservancy. It was my third trip there in the last year but neither Sweetie nor SuperPizzaBoy had seen it before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5537321908\/\" title=\"IMG_4905 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4905\" height=\"271\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5537321908_fa4e0cae03-300x162.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They have bison, lots of bison, all over the place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5535978633\/\" title=\"IMG_4921 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4921\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5535978633_9e3acb87ac-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5536524710\/\" title=\"IMG_4914 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5536524710_5ddfc9dba3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_4914\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They have grand vistas of sky, rolling hills, and trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5536414618\/\" title=\"IMG_4908 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5536414618_56925a5749-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_4908\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are also birds, including this (What I think is a killdeer?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5535980003\/\" title=\"IMG_4922 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4922\" height=\"246\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5535980003_80a10c1528-300x147.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was yakking at us. We must have been too close to a nest or something. We left here alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5536691931\/\" title=\"IMG_4925 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4925\" height=\"252\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5536691931_aef0f044ea-300x151.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Preserve, formerly a working cattle ranch, has oil wells, apparently existing in harmony with the bison.<\/p>\n<p>And there were spring breakers photographing everything in sight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5536416172\/\" title=\"IMG_4909 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4909\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5536416172_f606eaaa47-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Including each other<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5536487284\/\" title=\"IMG_4911 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4911\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5536487284_bdd6ebe12d-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The preserve encompasses 39,000 acres much of it the bluestem grass that the bison love to eat. Here is a<span style=\"color: #b45f06;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelok.com\/listings\/view.profile\/id.7647\">link to travelok.com<\/a><\/span> with some more information and describing how to get there from where you are.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home to Tulsa, well outside the Preserve, we came upon a prairie fire. It was spectacular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5537271120\/\" title=\"IMG_4926 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4926\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5537271120_802a5e43d5-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been dry and windy lately. Hey smokers don&#8217;t be tossing your butts out the window!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5536698101\/\" title=\"IMG_4931 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_4931\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5536698101_f117d3e581-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also passed this ranch gate. We&#8217;re guessing it is to the ranch home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/thepioneerwoman.com\/\">Pioneer Woman<\/a>. But that is just a guess. If you have never checked out her blog you need to. It is something else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5537278038\/\" title=\"IMG_4932 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5537278038_b4b97359bd-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_4932\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camera-critters.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #bf9000; font-size: large;\"><b><i>Camera Critters<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I took a day off and the family drove up to Pawhuska, Oklahoma to visit the Tallgrass Praire Preserve owned by the Nature Conservancy. It was my third trip there in the last year but neither Sweetie nor SuperPizzaBoy had seen it before. They have bison, lots of bison, all over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[347,520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bison","category-camera-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}