FROM ATOP A HILL ON THE TALLGRASS PRAIRIE NATIONALPreserve, the echoes of a symphony that has been playing here in the Flint Hills of Kansas for more than 12,000 years can still be heard. The music is complex and ever-changing, roaring allegros of winter winds, sonatas of fire-devouring autumn grasses,a vast composition of renewal and burgeoning. It's a seemingly endless movement of cicada and katydid, big bluestem and Indian grass, rambling bison, northern bob-white, horned lark and poorwill, and it was once the dominant, unyielding sound of America's heartland.
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