Seirer_171021_0312.jpgLittle Jerusalem Limestone peaks, some reaching 100 feet, rise from the shortgrass prairie in Logan County, Kansas. This 250-acre site, long known as Little Jerusalem, was purchased by The Nature Conservancy in 2016, which also owns the adjoining 17,000-acre Smoky Valley Ranch south of Oakley. Little Jerusalem is closed to the public at present but the conservancy is working to develop a plan that will both allow public access and protect the delicate landscape of soft limestone and fossilized sea shells left from what 80 million years ago was an huge inland sea.

Limestone peaks, some reaching 100 feet, rise from the shortgrass prairie in Logan County, Kansas. This 250-acre site, long known as Little Jerusalem, was purchased by The Nature Conservancy in 2016, which also owns the adjoining 17,000-acre Smoky Valley Ranch south of Oakley. Little Jerusalem is closed to the public at present but the conservancy is working to develop a plan that will both allow public access and protect the delicate landscape of soft limestone and fossilized sea shells left from what 80 million years ago was an huge inland sea.