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    Catching a Glimpse of Tallgrass Prairie... in the Smoky Hills?
    Rex Buchanan
    The tallgrass prairie is mostly confined to the Kansas Flint Hills in eastern Kansas. But earlier this year, some of that grass - up to 5 feet tall - started sprouting further west, out in the Smoky Hills of central Kansas. What's going on here? Commentator Rex Buchanan explains.