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Kansas

Kansas or Kaw,river, 170 mi (274 km) long, formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers in NE Kansas and flowing E to the Missouri River at Kansas City; the system drains parts of Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado. Heavy floods (especially in 1951 and 1977) on the Kansas and its tributaries caused great damage to the surrounding farms and Kansas City area. Numerous dams, reservoirs, and levees have since been built to prevent flooding.

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Effects of lowhead dams on freshwater mussels in the Neosho River, Kansas. (Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science)

Changes in fish assemblages, Solomon River basin, Kansas: habitat alterations, extirpations, and introductions. (Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science)

State newspapers will soon confront river otters. (St. Louis Journalism Review)

Rediscovery of the black sandshell, Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819), in Kansas. (Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science)

The armadillo [Dasypus novemcinctus (Linnaeus)] invasion of Kansas. (Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science)

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"All that glisters" ... precious metals or the lack thereof in Kansas. (Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science)

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