Featured Waypoint: Red Hills Scenic Byway
August 5, 2025
Red Hills Scenic Byway | Photo Scott Bean, Text Keith Miller, authors of Kansas Landscapes: A Photographic Tour of the Region's Geological History, licensed to Sierra Club Kansas Chapter This photograph displays the dramatic...
Featured Waypoint: Scenic Skyline Drive - Wabaunsee County
June 4, 2025
Skyline Scenic Drive - Wabaunsee County | Photo Scott Bean, Text Keith Miller, authors of Kansas Landscapes: A Photographic Tour of the Region's Geological History, licensed to Sierra Club Kansas Chapter ...
What Has 352,000 Legs and Goes Nowhere?
June 3, 2025
Sierra Club and Pawnee County Feedlot Fighters oppose proposal for cattle mega-feedlot in Larned, Kansas. Huge quantities of waste will jeopardize local well water and shallow aquifers.
Featured Waypoint: Big Basin
May 6, 2025
Big Basin | Photo Scott Bean, Text Keith Miller, authors of Kansas Landscapes: A Photographic Tour of the Region's Geological History, licensed to Sierra Club Kansas Chapter The Big Basin Prairie Preserve Wildlife Area...
Sierra Club Monitors Expose Smoke Risks in Spring Burning
May 1, 2025
By Craig Volland, Kansas Chapter Agriculture and Air Quality Chair Prairie Fire Smoke | Photo Tom Arnhold, Sierra Club Kansas ChapterThe annual burning of Flint Hills grasslands is almost over. As usual the high winds and rainy days of early...
Spring Burning Update
April 2, 2025
By Craig Volland, Kansas Chapter Agriculture and Air Quality ChairAs of March 20 only 60,000 acres have burned, way fewer than the average 2 million acres burned every spring. The first burns of any size were March 25 and 26 mainly toward...
A Journey Toward Sun Power - Maybe - Part 5
April 2, 2025
By Mimi Moffat, Sierra Club Kansas ChapterThe question now is a personal one but one which others may be asking. Can I afford to commit to the substantial expense of a home battery backup and solar installation?Warning! I'm heading down a...
Southwind Group Potluck and Presentation
April 2, 2025
Southwind Group | April 11, 2025 | 6:30 p.m. | Potluck and Presentation | First Unitarian Universalist Church, 7202 E 21st St N, Wichita, KS 67206 |Join us at the Southwind Group, Sierra Club event for an exclusive presentation by Chuck...
Featured Waypoint: Tallgrass Prairie Preserve
April 2, 2025
Tallgrass Prairie Preserve | Photo by Scott Bean, text by Keith Miller, authors of Kansas Landscapes:A Photographic Tour of the Region’s Geological HistoryThe Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and the Konza Prairie south of Manhattan,...
A Journey toward Sun Power, Maybe - Part 4
March 4, 2025
You may be wondering if this journey will ever end. That's fair. It's easy to get carried away with the environmental benefits of moving to clean energy but the unfortunate reality is that for one household, the cost is significant and the cost/...
