Z-Bar Ranch, Strong City, Kansas, 1995
Photograph by Raymond Gehman
Cattle enjoy grazing on the tall grass prairie, where places like the Z-Bar Ranch set fires every spring. The fires are swift and so is the recovery; within a month cattle feast on the new grass.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Essential Element of Fire," September 1996, National Geographic magazine.)
