Talk:Kansas River

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[edit] Missouri River basin map

Source: USGS National Map: The Kansas-Lower Republican (KLR) basin drains almost 10,500 square miles within blue-shaded Missouri River basin

This mis-captioned map of the Missouri River basin (in blue) was added to the page; can it be captioned in such a way as to be made specifically relevant to the Kansas River page? -- Malepheasant 02:37, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Corrected ...
RJBurkhart 01:15, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

• Kansas Policy Review (Spring 2004)
• PDF: The Waters of Kansas: Past and Present by Donald Worster

[edit] See also

• USA National Atlas streamflow stations
• KELP: (Water quality community connections)

RJBurkhart 11:39, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re*Cycling Arkansas River and Kaw River Earth Science

Also see:
MentorshipART of Peace (Eco-Futures Forum)
WikkaWiki's logo from the project's website.
RJBurkhart 02:28, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] USGS National Map Geo-Tourism

• Purging GPS survey topology waypoint creates a false flatlander perception.
  • Fort Riley (Eco-History Trails and Tales)

USGS TOPO! GPS Data Format Deg NAD83 ElevFeet
JUNCTNCTY,39.02861,-96.83140,1107,JUNCTION CITY :: ELEV 1107 FT

What information are you trying to convey? That one end of the river is higher than the other? There may be a clearer way of doing so. Maybe something like a sentence that reads: "Its headwaters are at 1100' above sea level, while its junction with the Missouri is at 700'". Regarding the categories, every river contains water, so that category is nonsensical. Category:Biogeography and Category:Human geography are other categories which seem applicable to every river, and which are not appropriate. We need to keep these connections much tighter than some editors have done. -Will Beback 22:26, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Great alternative! Modified introduction as suggested.RJBurkhart 11:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jan. 2006 edits

A few notes:

• I recently removed this unsightly and unexplained burst of text and numerals:

"USGS TOPO! GPS Data Format Deg NAD83 ElevFeet JUNCTNCTY,39.02861,-96.83140,1107,JUNCTION CITY :: ELEV 1107 FT", and found it re-inserted a few hours later. I don't think it should be there but don't want a revert war.

• It's not explained in the text of the article why this particular river should be in Category:Biogeography and Category:Human geography, but not every other river in the world. (These were also been removed and reverted recently.) Maybe some connection is made in the sea of external links that have been added to the article, but at the very least it should be laid out in sentences and paragraphs in the text of the Wikipedia article itself, if these categories are indeed appropriate placements for this article.

Since 1999, the Kansas Water Office (KWO) with Kansas Department of Health & Environment (KDHE) have "championed" community stewardship efforts to preserve & protect water quality via multiple river orienteering programs like Friend of the Kaw and bioneering interdisciplinary K-State Extension initiatives.
RJBurkhart 23:09, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

This multi-agency effort focuses on engaging community stakeholders in civic social responsibiltiy for water resources. Hence, biogeography & human geography categories seem appropriate.

• KELP Kansas Environmental Leadership Program
  • Kansas Public Health: Community Workbench
    • Kansas Community Pride
      RJBurkhart 23:09, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
      

[edit] Kaw Valley watershed connections

(This list follows Kansas River flow downstream)

• Shawnee - Elev: 732 ft
• Kaw Point - Elev: 727 ft

This'd be swell info to have in the article, just like this. -Will Beback 11:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Done - Thanks for ongoing review & comment! -RJBurkhart 22:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re*Visioning RO/CS Lessons Learned

River Orienteering / Community Stewardhsip (RO/CS) geoWIZard for Prairie Pasage Flyways @ http://FutureThought.info

RJBurkhart 11:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kaw Valley social capital network

(Recycling prior lessons learned as wisdom)

• Talk:Kansas River/Biogeography
• Talk:Kansas River/Community toool box
• Talk:Kansas River/Dam safety monitoring
• Talk:Kansas River/Shawnee Crossings
• Talk:Kansas River/Virtual Team Tactics

RJBurkhart 10:31, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prairie Passage in Kansas flyways

• Audobon Society was added to the "see also" list, but no mention of the Kansas River is made in that article; what's the connection? --Malepheasant 01:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Our Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) seeks to protect waterfowl habitats & the National Audubon Society helps multi-state participants promote flyway corridor birding maps ...

• Prairie Passage in Kansas ( Adopt-a-Habitat )
  • Citizen science via Great Backyard Bird Count
    • National Audubon Society

Also see global UNEP efforts: To support interdisciplinary Earth Science, EPA funds both KACEE and KAWS to create a sustainable sense of place in space by understanding the water cycle within watershed basins.
RJBurkhart 16:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New updates

I've been updating this article and plan to do a lot more. This will be my first series of major updates (to any wiki article). Please tell me how you think its going! Sculptorjones 23:55, 17 November 2006 (UTC)