Visitors check one of dozens of interactive displays at the Flint Hills Discovery Center.
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Children watch a presentation on how fire helps maintain the Flint Hills.
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Viewers watch the Flint Hills Discovery Center's "Immersion Experience" that details the history and seasonal changes in the Flint Hills.
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Visitors check one of dozens of interactive displays at the Flint Hills Discovery Center.
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Visitors check one of dozens of interactive displays at the Flint Hills Discovery Center.
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Michael Pearce / The Wichita Eagle
Visitors check one of dozens of interactive displays at the Flint Hills Discovery Center.
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The display that shows all kinds of animal, plant and insect life that thrives below Flint Hills grasslands.
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A make-believe burrow so kids can experience how animals like badgers and ground squirrels live.
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A child, left, sits at the end of a tunnel that replicates an animal's burrow.
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Part of the art display shows what life may be been like in the Flint Hills centuries ago.
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A photography exhibit in the Flint HIlls Discovery Center's art gallery.
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Children at a Flint Hills Discovery Center day camp learn to make pottery like Native Americans did in the region.
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A display of animals that spend their entire lives beneath the surface of the Flint Hills.
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An interactive display that allows visitors to get information from more than 100 Flint Hills residents, concerning issues that are crucial to the area.
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Displays show the depths common Flint Hills grasses will send roots in the rocky soil.
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Native grass waves in the wind n front of the Flint Hills Discovery Center, in Manhattan.
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A visitor views a screen that gives a progression of history and the seasons in the Flint Hills. The experience comes with simulated smoke, wind and snow.
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An interactive display that allows visitors to get information from more than 100 Flint Hills residents, concerning issues that are crucial to the area.
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Michael Pearce / The Wichita Eagle
An interactive display that allows visitors to get information from more than 100 Flint Hills residents, concerning issues that are crucial to the area.
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Michael Pearce / The Wichita Eagle
Children at a Flint Hills Discovery Center day camp learn to make pottery like Native Americans did in the region.
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Michael Pearce / The Wichita Eagle