Word: pawhuska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vast, rolling expanses reaching beyond the horizon. U.S. environmentalists would like to keep it that way, and so would the National Park Service. Last month Park Service Director William Penn Mott toured the proposed site for the nation's first Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve: 50,000 acres near Pawhuska, in the Osage Hills of Oklahoma. "You have a jewel here," he told ranchers and conservationists at a barbecue on the Foraker Ranch, one of the properties that could make up the preserve, "and the jewel should fit into the crown of the National Park Service...