ISSN: 0022-877X

Published by EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Prepared and Issued by THE DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Editorial Committee: DAVID EDDS, TOM EDDY, GAYLEN NEUFELD

Editors Emeritus: ROBERT BOLES, JOHN BREUKELMAN, ROBERT F. CLARKE

Typist: NANCY GULICK

Circulation and Mailing: ROGER FERGUSON

Circulation (this issue): 5700

Printed by: ESU Press

Online edition designed by: Terri Weast

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PHOTO CREDITS: The photographs in this issue were taken by Larry W. Schwarm, Assistant Professor of Art at Emporia State University. The images were made in Lyon and Chase Counties, Kansas, from 1990 to 1992. They document aspects of day and night burns, of shortgrass fires that barely simmer and the wildness and violence of the tallgrass fires, and they capture the aura and beauty of the spring ritual of pasture burning.

This issue of The Kansas School Naturalist derives from "Fire in the Flint Hills," a multidisciplinary colloquium held at Emporia State University in April 1991.

This issue of The Kansas School Naturalist is underwritten by The Bay Foundation, New York, NY.