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Prairie dreams tied to buffalo lore on Douglas County land
Mike Moddrell, 73, tends 320 acres in southwest Douglas County and recalls a prairie that once hosted free roaming buffalo. He describes diverse flora such as butterfly milkweed and white prairie sage and imagines how the land looked hundreds of years ago when buffalo roamed, the last free animals believed to be in the county in the late 1820s.
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Ike Moddrell
Moddrell
Douglas County
Kansas
Haskell Indian Nations University
Chuck Haines
Lawrence
Mike Moddrell