Forests of Kansas
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- A trip through the Chautauqua Hills on highway 160 from Elk Falls to Elk River Trail. Experience scenic views including bluffs, lakes, wooded hills, waterfalls, and more! Learn about the geology that makes up this region, as we discover sandstone formations deposited during the Pennsylvanian Period. Take a detour from typical Kansas into this unique part of the state!
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And here i am in western kansas. You kids have fun with your trees..I'll just...sit here with the corn
@dohndabe3472 in western Kansas I would spend all my time in the badlands and canyons!
@@abtfilmskansas Don't forget The Breaks in NW Kansas.
@@dohndabe3472 SWK is gorgeous
Actually, all of eastern Kansas is much more heavily wooded than most would imagine. It's also much less flat as well with low rolling hills. A good example of both is Kansas City on either side of the state line. There are many places within the city that look like forest with a few rooftops sticking out. While the total area isn't as large as many states a full ten percent of Kansas is forested totaling over five million acres.
The Lawrence area is beautiful, but not as much so as SE Kansas.
Tell me about it. I'm riding a bicycle across the country and I had to ride a little more than a 100 miles before Kansas started flatting out. Still better than riding through the hills and hollers of eastern Oklahoma though.
This video is excellent. My husband and I bought a house in S.E.K. last year. We are formerly of Colorado and can not get friends or family to visit because they think Kansas is dull. I am working hard to change their perceptions. This video will help!
Shhh! Let them all stay in Colorado!! We can keep this wonderful area a secret!
It's amazing how many people think Kansas is nothing but flat and dusty, just because of some old western shows and the Dust Bowl. Which only happened out west, and also part of OK, CO, TX, and NM. Heck, a third of Colorado is identical to western Kansas. 😂
Probably doesn't help that I-70 cuts through the most boring landscape possible.
The dust bowl blew dirt all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. Ships had it on their decks. Sky went black in DC then they finally acted about it.
@@briebel2684 I-70 until West Virginia and I-80 until Pennsylvania both make it possible to go across almost the entire US without seeing a thing.
They also killed so many small towns by diverting any need to go near them.
kansas is certainly dull. All the trees are in the far-east part of the state!
I live in Kansas (around the Hays area), and I never knew this place existed. Fascinating video, thank you for uploading!
Thank you for pointing out that Kansas has TREES. We actually have lots of different forest, so I hope you will cover other forested areas of the state, too.
I was born here in Kansas and my husband and I totally got lost on the elk river trail 😂 it's actually incredible how different Kansas is in that area!!
I spent a lot of my life in the Flint Hills, There was a back road between Winfield and Oklahoma somewhere that had some of the most beautiful country. Thanks for the taste of home.
I live in the area, and am blessed to have a family ranch here of several thousand acres. I’ve spent my life hunting deer, turkey, and quail in these woods. Solid post oak timber for miles. Beautiful area. Wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Thanks, Nick! We discovered Elk City Lake a few years ago and love hiking there. I plan on exploring near Oak Valley soon!
born n raised in wichita i miss it with all my heart.
Great stuff Nick, thanks for your work documenting these beautiful and history rich places in Kansas!
This is awesome and so valuable. Documenting the natural world and its beauty is God’s work. Nick sees the forest for the trees.
Nice video, made my already positive opinion of Kansas even better. I'd love to go sometime, but, unfortunately, I sit between being interested enough to go, but not interested enough to spend money to go on a trip there from here in Texas. Hopefully I'll see it someday.
Great video. I used to live in Emporia and the flint hills area is another video that should be made. A great place to start would be the bazaar cattle pins on the turnpike then to the tetterville area. Also the road from Matfield green to strong city is spectacular.
As a former resident of Matfield Green, I 100% agree. Especially in the fall!
I used them live in Olathe, now Wichita, and have in-laws in Emporia. The Flint Hills (especially in spring and summer) is probably my favorite part of Kansas. It's absolutely beautiful.
north east kansas is also quite beautiful with lakes, forests, and the rolling flint hills
Excellent work as usual! Cant wait to see Rivers of Kansas.
Always gold, my friend! Thank you for bringing this content to the world.
Be sure to check out the critters we have in Kansas now. You will be amazed. Beautiful lands areas all over the state actually. Love the Flint Hills ocean of tall grasses.
This is great! I love how articulate you are & how well paced your voice is. Love this so much! You are amazing, Nick, so multi-talented!
I've gotta explore this place myself. I can't spoil myself watching the video, I have been looking for some woods to explore here for a very long time!
The Gary Haller trail in Johnson County runs along the side of a cliff that has something like a 100 foot drop when you look over the side.
thanks for this. i got some places to check out this fall and winter - my ideal time to camp
Great video. I live close to Independence Ks. I always hear how Kansas is flat. But south east kansas is not. Hiking all around Elk Falls, Big Hill Elk River is great. Thanks
I've been wanting to check out Big Hill. Any good trails there?
Looks like a great place for some good r.c rock crawling. Im just in McPherson ill have to go spend the weekend in the area. Thanks for sharing.
There are some cool hills around medicine lodge as well
Check out my film Medicine Hills! It's a 20 minute film dedicated to that region.
Kansas is just a little too far for me, I do a lot of hiking in TN, AR, MO, and IL.
Hopefully I'll get to do some hiking there soon.
You need to check out Linn counyy. Much the same as the Ozarks.
I filmed a wedding up there once and it was awesome! Apparently lovers be meeting at this mystical Lynn picnic I keep hearing about.
Love the baby ozarks!
this is awesome!
funny i watch this now. a year ago almost to the day i was sitting in elk city state park, right where that shot is taken at 7:39 . I have picture in my phone from the exact same spot. very cool!
Makes me regret not buying land there in the 90's. My friend owned land 12 east of Sedan and knew of some really cheap near him, but I was 19 and stupid and somehow equated buying the land with having to settle down right away.
Meanwhile my friend was working with me all over NE and KS at that time anyway.
I've lived here my entire life and have yet to see a forest.
It's not a complaint, it's the truth.
This isn't too far from I am now, might check it out
That's just 37 miles away from me. I've been all over that area deer hunting for decades!
I saw so many deer while in the area! I bet that region is world-class for hunting!
@abtfilmskansas I've been a taxidermist for 45 yrs. in Southeast Kansas & mounted some giant whitetails! My favorite was a buck that had 31 points!
some years ago my mom and i were in southeast kansas visiting relatives in the parsons erie area me being me i went out exploring the area a few hours much to my surprise i run onto a sawmill in that area did not investigate though . i also run onto a museum in a place called st paul went in did not see a living soul took some pics and left
I work with Rex Buchanan at the KGS. Cool dude. Rural kansas hides many cool geologic features you wont see by staying on I70
@xxDOTH3DEWxx that's awesome! I worked with him on Exploration Kansas, and he has consulted with me on a new project I'm working on. Excited to get that one going!
SEK is home for me. Allen County raised. My hometown has elm, oak, and Osage Orange trees that have been around since the civil war. They live on a floodplain that sits below a 30ft limestone bluff. SEK was an incredible place to grow up.
The Ozark ecosystem starts in Kansas and extends up the plateau to the east. Ozark hills are truly ancient, they make the Rockies seem young. The land itself feels old. The topsoil is thick and rich.
I now live up in the Kaw River Valley in Riley Co. Both areas are beautiful. The geology and ecology are incredible here, but I still long for home.
Great job
Great video and subscribed!
Thank you so much!
A fine video. Many parts of Southeast Kansas like this are comparable to the Ozarks but without all the excess tourists. I like to hike there and I guess I hope it kind of stays rather unknown.
KANSAS RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
It’s funny I’m from Nebraska and we determine when we’re in Kansas by seeing a multitude of trees
@@ChuckleLoves4arting the invasive trees and range mismanagement is becoming a real issue.
Trees and Lone star ticks
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Pretty cool but isn't only like 3% of all land in Kansas public so how much of this can you really go to anyway?
@teddycooke8145 that makes a great point. I'd say there are several thousand acres available to explore if you add up Cross Timbers State Park, Elk City Lake, Elk River Trail, Lehigh Portland Trails, Big Hill Lake, Woodrow Lake, and all the surrounding wildlife areas, walk-in hunting, and walk-in fishing areas. I could compile you an official list if that's helpful.
I’m from Moline KS 😌 s/o elk county
Protect this area as much as u can!!! I have lived my entire life in Northeast kansas and over the last 15-20 years it has been stripped of alot of its trees... Timber, draws, and hedge rows have been ripped out for farming, no regard to the consequences this causes. Most of this is backed by your tax dollar and we can thank the government for transitioning northeast kansas to resemble western kansas.. Most people probably don't realize the government programs and incentives that are handed out to the farmers for "LAND IMPROMENT".... This has turned into a vicious cycle to where the common farmer now has tax dollars to own dozers and track hoes to completely eliminate timbered areas, on top of that, we have a couple of loggers in the area that flash money for hard woods and that fuels land clearing also. I used to laugh to myself when i would see them advertise for logging and wonder, what the heck are the going to log?? Everything was the answer, when they wound up being an assist to stripping the land bare, they moved right in. This area looks rocky, this may be its saving grace.... The family farm i bought 10 years ago is now a bit of a thorn in my side, I wish i didn't have to watch it happen..... I'm not even going to get into the wind farm that went in 4 years ago, do your best to keep that nightmare out of your areas...
The unfortunate reality is that the land is being returned more closely to it’s previous state. Before European colonization, little to none of Kansas, even the northeast portions, were forested. Large prairies dominated the state, but Europeans/Americans have introduced invasive trees that are destroying out beautiful state. If you ever drive through the flint hills and wonder why all the creek beds are dry, its not mainly because of drought; it is because of invasive trees on the creek banks.
Fortunately, the area this video covers was naturally forested, it also known as the Cross Timbers. It was said to have been so thick that settlers had a very tough time getting through it. Another interesting example of amazing Kansas biodiversity that we are loosing to monocultures.
Lot of pretty girls in Kansas.
@@hardrock6r I married one after moving here from Florida! Some of the most beautiful in the country.
@@abtfilmskansas I knew a pretty girl from Cherryville/cherryvale? once along time ago. She is still there as a matter of fact. Not complaining its a good memory.
Nice photgraphy. There are some beautiful places in this part of the state, but ... no one refers to SEK as the baby Ozarks 😄
9:23 …and Oklahoma
I captured a lot of footage in OK near Keystone Lake, but my hard drive crashed and I'm trying to recover the footage. If I do, expect a follow up video on Oklahoma. I might have to get back down there anyways.
Broccoli? 1:19
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I strongly dislike the state and the SEK area after spending a number of my years there. I am far away now, but you have presented the area in a beautiful and informative way. I am quite familiar with the blue blazes and recognize those spots. High quality video and voiceover. Great work!
@thermodynamical5635 thank you, I really appreciate that! I moved out to Kansas from Florida and somehow fell in love. I really like the quirky charms, diversity in geology, and the wild west history. I wonder if I was born here if I would feel different. Maybe it takes an outsider to fully appreciate the reality of how cool it is here.
@@abtfilmskansas Totally fair. Also, if you originated in Florida, I can see why the humidity is not even close to phasing you. And yes, there is a rich history full of cowtown and cowboy lore over there. If you ever want to switch things up and try your hand with documentaries further West, Colorado or Wyoming really knock Kansas's socks off with all of the above and more. Your skillset would do great. If you ever go back to the overlook above the elk river (post Oak Self-Guiding Nature Trail), do the short trail underneath the overlook. It may or may not be overgrown. Have a look upward on some of the more cliffy spots and you'll see bolts. If you ever feel brave, there exists one of Kansas's very very few climbing crags you can try your hands at climbing or rappelling locally. One more weird unique thing out there only in SEK. We got absolutely sick of the ticks though.
the background music drove me away wish there was a way to turn it off
Its very mellow, how does it bother you?? You need a nap
@@Baergen its not mellow!!!!! it disrupts understanding..for the hearing impared...
That drum machine sound in the background sucks😮 good video though It would be much better if you eliminate that sound effect
@@scottprather5645 appreciate the feedback!
“They say you can’t get lost in the woods in Kansas but look at this 10x50 mile wide forest”
If you get lost in that then you never had any business being in the woods.
@@ETAisNOW they meant lose one's self in the woods. As in a retreat from city life.
@@abtfilmskansas I have never heard someone say lost in the woods to mean retreat from the city but ok I guess
Kansas has like no forest. And the small amount that does exist is mostly private property. I lived there for a short time and I'm a big outdoors camping person and it was not that great there.
If you like forest go to Oregon, Washington, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, any of the most northern states pretty much.
There are still more windmills than trees.
Yeah but the forests aren't impressive and small. Kansas has it's own beauty, but natural forests aren't part of that.
@nightshade8958 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'm from Florida, and I'm impressed with the Chautauqua Hills Region.
Shhh Kansas is great, but we don’t want cali or colo folks coming out
@@LordNotlek they tend to think they're too good for Kansas. It's really their loss.
@@abtfilmskansas You should come to the Central Valley (CA) if you think that. I think you'd be surprised that Californians love Kansas. The aforementioned Central Valley has a lot more in common with KS than you might think.
This barely qualifies as a forest. Trees don't necessarily equate to a forest. Therefore Kansas still has no trees.
@davidmcmyne I have a film coming up about the invasive wave of trees sweeping eastern Kansas so stay tuned for that.
Keep believing and saying this. If people realize the diversity in Kansas people will start moving there.
@@mknewlan67 I live in Kansas. The beautiful Flint hills. I am from the northeast so I am very biased towards clear water, forests and mountains. lived there for 30 years. I know there are tiny beautiful nooks in Kansas but it's far from amazing. It just depends on what you grew up with I believe. In the end it's all just our opinions and it doesn't matter. I just love giving Kansas crap, but it is my home right now.
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1:34...doing the sign of satan...no thanks. Thumbs down.
Kansas blows, I can't wait to move back west again