Kudos to the Wichita City Council for having the foresight to buy a rare 40-acre remnant of virgin prairie to be developed as parkland in a fast-growing area of southeast Sedgwick County.
And thanks to the Means family, which has owned the land since the 1870s, for its efforts to preserve this piece of our state’s heritage.
The tallgrass native prairie, part of a larger 148-acre tract, sounds like a gem, and will help address a shortage of parkland in southeast Wichita.
The city needs to continue to watch for opportunities to preserve nature and open space as a refuge from suburban sprawl.
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Will be good for some nature photography and some field studies.
While I commend the city, I wonder what kind of access they’ll allow and what effect it’ll have on the ecology of the park. 40 acres isn’t a very big park. That’s about the size of Sam’s and parking lot over on North Rock Road.
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
But with a few well placed campaign “donations” we can see a “Future Home of Wal-Mart” on the property. That’s what happened to the protected wetlands on the West side of town.
The Wichita city council should not be commend not at all.
If they truly believed in conservation they would tear down those old and unused buildings in the downtown area, returning the land back to nature.
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