10 Thursday; December 7, 1989 / University Daily Kansan Your paper, your news. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NATURAL WAY Natural Fiber Clothing & Body Care 820-822 Mass. St., Lawrence, Kansas 64044 (913) 841-10100 Natural Fiber Mall Tonkea 2nd Location Westridge Mall, Topeka A jacket and vest all in one? Or separate. A coated nylon jacket lined with Thinsulate® with a removeable vest made of Richloft® fleece. A warm combo, or separates. Men's and women's sizes. SUNFLOWER 804 Mass.. 843-5000 --at the KU Bookstores in the The Etc. Shop 732 Massachusetts Lawrence Kansas 66044 (913) 843-0611 KU 109 . KU 89 . KU 91 . KU 66 . UAB 83 LSU 83 UNLV 77 ST.JOHN'S 57 T-shirts Now Available Kansas & Burge Unions Natural areas protected by state group Kansas' prairie heritage still lives in Douglas County. By Travis Butler Kansan staff writer A recent study by the Kansas Natural Heritage Program found 129 high-quality natural areas in Douglas County, said Craig Freeman, botanist and program director. The areas include prairies, woodlands and meadows. The Heritage Program is at the Kansas Biological Survey on West Campus. The program was created in 1866 to categorize and preserve the state's biological heritage, Freeman said. The program was originally jointly supported by the private group Nature Conservancy and the state of Kansas. In July 1988 the program gained full state sponsorship. "We were a fairly young program, compared to those in other states," Freeman said. "When we were started in 1986, we were the 43rd program in the national network." There are three plant species in Kansas protected by federal law, Freeman said. Federal law protects 12 animal species, and state law protects about another 40. The state also is keeping an eye on many other potentially endangered animal species. the national network. He said the program had concentrated on identifying and cataloging the rare plants and animals in Kansas. Looking for "natural communities," areas basically untouched by human activity, is the best way to do that, he said. William Busby, the program's zoologist and data manager, said that while some species were easy to protect, others were difficult. Site-specific animals are easy to protect because only the area needs to be preserved. Migratory animals, including birds and fish, are much harder to save. "Much of the world's whooping crane population passes through Kansas on their migration, but Freeman helps protect 129 natural areas. they don't stop at the same place every year," he said. "Education is important in preserving the population." Freeman helps protect 129 natural areas. The program's first two years were spent gathering all known information about the state's natural resources, Freeman said. That work is now complete, except for updating as new information is received, he said. In the past year, the program started doing field surveys to verify and expand upon the existing information. "These surveys not only verify the existing literature but are a source of new information as well," Freeman said. "We find things we never expected to run across." The Douglas County study assisted in this effort, he said, but it was mainly a special project to gather new information. Chris Lauver, the program's community ecologist, executed the study. He said its purpose was to find the best examples of natural communities. "We discovered many new populations of Mead's Milkweed is one of the three federally protected plants in Kansas. Twenty-two of the 129 high-quality natural areas in Douglas County have rare plants or animals, Lauer said. In all, the study found 2,800 acres of relatively pristine land. Freeman said, "We've identified more high-quality prairie areas in Douglas County than in all of Illinois, and Illinois still is known as the prairie state. Unfortunately, they've lost a lot of their natural areas." Freeman said that Kansas as a whole had not been surveyed on the same level as Douglas County had, and such a survey was not likely for some time. some time. "It costs somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000 per county for a detailed survey," he said. "These figures seem to hold throughout the country." "Chris took one and a half years to do one county, plus parts of six others. 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