Grassy Knoll | On a rise Growing tall Great Plains prairie |
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he rural Great Plains have lost a third of their population since 1920. The population density outside urban centers is low - two to six persons per square mile. Over 6,000 ghost towns exist in Kansas alone. This is great territory for photographic exploration, and I plan on a systematic investigation next summer. The wide open feel and subtitle variations in landscape topography are deeply appealing.
The continuing plains population loss has provoked the proposition that large drier parts be restored to native grassland grazed by buffalo. Wouldn't that be fantastic?
“The earth that has heights, and slopes, and great plains, that supports the plants of manifold virtue, free from the pressure that comes from the midst of men, she shall spread out for us, and fit herself for us!” - Atharva Veda
