No question, the prairie has been a transformative landscape for the man who stood alone in the dark under the night sky with the camera on his tripod on the Tallgrass.

The Sutton Center was offering a three-month internship to help do prairie chicken research on the tallgrass prairie in Osage County. “I had never been to Oklahoma,” said Larsson.

Dan Arthur, the president and chief engineer of ALL Consulting, stands beside a defunct oil well in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma on March 20, 2024.

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