That vortex over Canada and North Dakota dominated the outcome.

March 2, 2012
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the North and West Hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop)

The vortex absorbed the energy from the system and consolidated it into a very powerful system.  

Handout image (click here) courtesy of the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab shows the dipping jet stream which is helping create unstable weather and tornadoes across the southeast portion of the United States on March 2, 2012. REUTERS/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Handout

NASHVILLE, TENN. - Tornadoes, high winds and hail battered the U.S. midsection on Friday, with reports of nearly three dozen tornadoes causing damage across five states and prompting urgent warnings to take cover across the region.

No deaths were reported, but seven people were hurt by suspected tornadoes in northern Alabama. Additional tornado sightings were reported to the National Weather Service in southeastern Tennessee, and along the Ohio River Valley in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky....

It could have been worse. People have to pay attention and BE SAFE. This is a very dangerous troposphere.  


People have to accept there are dangers, they need to be cognizant of the potential for those dangers.  People cannot live in bliss of denial of the possibility today is the day the storm could come to me.  They have to be willing to act and to have a plan.  School children practice drills for fire and people have to have a plan no different than if there was a fire in their homes or office.  Citizens have to not only be 'aware' of the warnings that will come, but, to act on those warnings to protect their lives.


From the New York Daily News

Tornadoes wipe out two Indiana towns and spread fear and havoc across much of nation (click title to entry - thank you)

BY / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: Friday, March 2, 2012, 11:59 AM

Updated: Friday, March 2, 2012, 6:20 PM

...Authorities reported the three deaths in southern Indiana, where Clark County Sheriff's Department Maj. Chuck Adams said the 1,900-person town of Marysville is "completely gone." Extreme damage was also reported in the nearby town of Henryville, home to about 2,000 people....

...The rural town about 45 miles north of Louisville is known as the home of Indiana's oldest state forest and as the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken Founder Colonel Harlan Sanders.

To the northeast, Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport was closed briefly because of debris on the runways. By late afternoon, one of three runways had reopened.

Forecasters at the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma said tornado threats as serious as Friday's only happen several times a year.

"Maybe five times a year we issue what is kind of the highest risk level for us at the Storm Prediction Center," forecaster Corey Mead said. "This is one of those days."

The powerful storm system was also causing problems in states far to the south, including Alabama and Tennessee where dozens of houses were also damaged. The threat of tornadoes was expected to last until late Friday. The outbreak comes two days after an earlier round of storms killed 13 people in the Midwest and South....

continued...

Women being attacked by the Right Wing is of course about politics.

There is no basis for any of it otherwise.  


There are no physicians coming forward to make testimony to a House or Senate Committee about the dangers facing women in regard to the legislation being passed in some of the states.  There is also no basis for such actions by any of the states.  There is no foundation for any of the legislation oppressing women and removing their civil rights.  This is all a social conservative agenda without any sound reason for it to proceed, but, the GOP doesn't care about that.  They care about wedge issues and that is what all this is to develop into.


I heard a statement that was truly uninformed and basically stupid.


"If the government can force insurance to carry contraception coverage, can they force any to purchase it and use it?"


Well, to the least talented among the media, THAT has already been decided.  One of the questions asked of attorneys when Roe v. Wade was heard, "Can the government order the imposition of abortion on women?"  Yes, one of the nine asked that question. 


The answer was, "No."


Given Roe v. Wade is the law of the land in the face of States believing otherwise, that is PRECEDENT and such questions are irrelevant to the topic of states removing Civil Rights from women.


Yes, all the legislative agendas of the Right Wing even though they pass the State government boils down to Civil Rights for women based in privacy and self determination of one's life.


Somewhat related is Governor McDonald?  Yes?  The Radical Right Governor.  I really see him running for Veep with Romney.  He is positioning himself to carry the Tea Party because Romney can't.  The social conservatives are McDonald and the fiscal conservatives are Romney.


The GOP HAS TO GO THERE, otherwise, they won't even have their base turning out in the national elections.  It is also easy to argue if McDonald and Romney stay on this strange message of right extremism, they sincerely aren't interested in winning the Federal Executive Branch, so much as maintaining and advancing the GOP in the states.  Romney is looking to pivot from this disaster he is in, but, in reality he is most probably stuck with his current image, message and agenda especially given his choice for energy consultant.

The exchange of the Chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke validates what President Obama has been saying about the USA economic recovery.

You might remember Senator Johnson, he suffered a stroke not long ago.  We are lucky to still have him.


Senator Johnson did not ask partisan questions.  They were forthright and important to actually define what occurred with the USA economy and why the lethargy exists.


He didn't pull any punches and what Chairman Bernanke stated was exactly what President Obama has been saying the entire time.  I don't believe Chairman Bernanke was coached by the President.  


I thank Senator Johnson for his determination to over come all odds to serve his country.  He does make a difference and dearly it is only he that could.

Ben Bernanke testified (click title to entry - thank you) on the U.S. economic outlook for the year and the future of economic growth. In his remarks he said that the domestic economy would grow modestly despite higher oil prices and turbulence in Europe. He also said that Congress should aim to reduce the deficit over the next 10 to 15 years to reach a point where revenues cover all costs except interest payments.


Sadly, the questions of Fed Chair Bernanke by the GOP members of the committee were to get 'talking points' verbalized.  There was no interest in the GOP members, expect, to word their questions and demand answers that would make good 'sound bites' both for campaigns and Murdoch's power brokering.  The USA has lost expertise and loyalty to its citizens from the GOP.

JOHNSON STATEMENT ON SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT (CLICK HERE)

March 1, 2012

WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) held a hearing on the Federal Reserve Bank’s Semiannual Monetary Report to the Congress. The Committee heard from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and discussed the ongoing economic recovery.

Below is Chairman Johnson’s statement as prepared for delivery:

“Today I welcome Chairman Bernanke back to this Committee to deliver the Federal Reserve’s Semiannual Monetary Report to Congress. 

“There are reasons to be optimistic about our nation’s economic recovery.  The U.S. economy has expanded for 10 straight quarters, and private sector employment has increased for 23 straight months.  Private employers added 2.1 million jobs last year, the most since 2005. ...

Neil Cavuto Giddy About Tim Johnson's "Stroke" (click here)

Reported by Melanie

December 13, 2006

At 4:10 p.m. EDT today (December 13, 2006) Neil Cavuto interrupted his "business news" show with this:

Alright. I just want to bring in this alert that's come into our newsroom right now. U.S. Senator Tim Johnson, he's a Democrat of South Dakota, has, we're getting reports that he had a stroke at his office today and is being hospitalized. That's all we know at this point. Nor do we know the 59 year old's condition. This happened just today.

Keep in mind that the new senate takes over on January 4 and it's right now 49 Democrats, 49 Republicans and 2 Independents, but ostensibly it will be a Democratic body.

We don't know how the fallout from all of this or, again, the severity of Senator Johnson's condition. We'll keep you posted....

Gee whiz, so much for valuing human life in the form of a Democrat. 

Europe is playing politics with General Motors

I guarantee you, General Motor's CEO is receiving a huge amount of pressure from Wall Street to maintain its factories in Europe.


Private capital companies can make decisions more interesting for a CEO.  Without manipulation of a corporation the  likes and size of  GM their ability to dilute their risks are waning, hence the IPO offering.


GM needs to maintain its liquid capital, hedge its own risks and move forward with new technologies such as the Chevy Volt.  Quite frankly, Nissan's Leaf is already looking like a better INVESTMENT than the Volt to that 'class' of purchaser.  Why? Because the American consumer is making their own investments in Light Sweet Crude and it is the electric car.


Europe has problems and the American consumer cannot afford to bail them out AGAIN.  If there are auto companies in Europe unable to maintain their heads above water then they need to close up shop.  I am quite sure GM, Ford or Chrysler will be more than willing to open car dealerships in Europe of any product manufactured in the USA.  


I would like to think of it this way.  The USA is the "New Japan" when it comes to exports.


The Unions now know the way it works.  Liquid asset companies, like private capital firms with names like Bain Capital, Blackstone, Carlyle approach a company newly recovered by the American people, protecting itself from problems by holding onto liquid assets, namely cash, and seek to influence that corporation to use its cash in brokering deals that will result in supposedly better stock prices and higher bonuses.


Now while that private equity firm doesn't leak 'the goods' about the deals it is brokering when the information is finally released to the public Wall Street goes to work hacking away at the profits the companies 'of the deal.'  The companies, their stockholders and their CEOs will no longer make those profits and there is no investing in the companies themselves which would be reflected in their stock prices.  Wall Street monopolize elements of 'the deal' and will run the cost of raw materials, etc., through the roof so any 'deal that was a dreamscape' is no more.


The companies I am exampling are Peugeot and GM.  They will go forward with their plans and CONTRACTS, but, they won't see the benefits they planned for because those anticipated incomes/savings are now in the hands of draconian greed merchants that will benefit.  Greed merchants like the Bain Capitals of the world.


The CEOs have to 'get over' their Old World ideas of bonuses and seek to really improve the market share for their products.  In Europe, if companies like Peugeot are up against the wall because they have lousy CEOs that have no 'rescue capital' then it is too bad.  If GM again slides into 'making an easy buck' idea, they will return to bankruptcy and we are off to the races again with greed merchants holding all the monies all over again.


Right now.  The liquid assets GM holds are burning a hole in the pocket of it's CEO.  Those liquid assets are insurance for the continued SMOOTH and sustained operation of General Motors.  Those assets are OPERATING ASSETS and NOT investment assets.  The future of any company is not draconian ideas of 'quick money' but Research and Development, reclaiming Market Share removed by 'second life' parts manufacturers and Marketing of products the consumer is looking for.  These corporations should not be giving their products away either.  They need to make a 'reasonable' profit to continue to grow their liquid assets, insure their future at least a decade out and bring consumer confidence back as a asset and not 'a risk.'


GM, Ford, Chrysler, railroad companies, bus companies need to realize their own liquid assets will empower them to become their own Bain Capitals and return their market share to THEIR PRODUCTS without the whims of greed merchants that could not care less about destroying them for their own benefits.  GM should be looking at their liquid assets as a potential for the development of security for its employees providing their own Private Capital Investment.  


Get the picture yet?  The companies in the USA are targets for their asset of a 'government buoyancy' in the USA treasury and the need of the people to have work.  It is a SYMPATHY ASSET.  A sympathy asset that is real, resilient and coveted.


American corporations need to work to reclaim their stability and expand their 'cash' assets.  Removing liquid assets from the 'cash flow' of Wall Street will secure the company and dilute the competitions ability to have '2nd life' companies ( I am not talking about recycling items either).  The reason there are independent parts companies for autos and aircraft and shrinking market share for corporate manufacturing is because those companies siphoned off the assets of corporations to 'rebuild' their own dreamscape of wealth at any cost.  These companies don't care about American labor and the quality that labor brings to the product and the market share of the very companies they depend on for their own incomes.


Example.  This is only an example:


Chrysler has shut down it's part division because an independent company has been able to 'tool and dye' a plant in China, India or Iraq.  The company now making those parts will not hire American labor and if it does it will be non-unionized, pay dirt cheap hourly wage, create poverty and destroy not only the market base for Chrysler's products, but the very parts they produce.  It is draconian.  It will insure the failure of the market place and American corporations will be in a vicious cycle of self destruction.  


ie:  "Boeing in South Carolina"


If people can't afford to fly and expand tourism the future of Boeing is very bleak. So why even conceive of 'The Dreamliner,' stick with government contracts.


If GM wanted to take an interest in Peugeot they should have first insured it was GUARANTEED it raw materials 'at the price' that would insure the well being of both companies.  That wasn't done and now it is too late.


GM will either settle for its 7% share in Peugeot and hope it improves with an injection of cash or it will 'play the game' of 'save the CEO his job' and consolidate labor and manufacturing, hence, destroying its own market share.  I strongly suggest GM 'take it on the chin' with Peugeot and the CEO absorb a bad decision as poor advise and ever elastic market pressures.


...UK industry analysts believe GM will combat (click title to entry - thank you) over-capacity in Europe by axeing two plants – possibly one in Bochum, Germany, and another in either Spain or Britain, which leaves the Cheshire factory vulnerable. "We could be at the sharp end of it," one analyst said. A closure announcement would be damaging for the Government, es-pecially as it could be made around the time of the Budget on 21 March. Amid signs that the UK may escape a double-dip recession, George Osborne, the Chancellor, will set out measures to boost growth, including a credit easing scheme to provide loans to small and medium-sized firms....

Here we go. It begins. The sun is up and the air masses are converging.

March 2, 2012
1231:00z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite of the USA Central Plains (click here for 12 hour loop)


In the 12 hour loop it is easy to discern the two air masses converging their boundaries.

March 2, 2012
1231:00z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared image of USA 

03.02.2012
1230:00z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite of North and West Hemisphere


It is noted how there is a stronger formation of straight line winds from the Pacific System.  However, there is the convergence.  Now, if the winds are high enough in velocity it will literally push the convergence areas too fast to form tornadoes.



03.02.2012
1230:00z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of North and West Hemisphere (click title to entry for 12 hour loop - thank you)



I think it is clearer in this image of the North and West Hemisphere to see the effects of the Pacific System.  It has a pushing dynamic that will result in increased movement of the two air masses.  


About three years ago or so I was crossing the coastal plain of North Carolina from the coast heading west when there was an Emergency Warning on the radio for tornado activity.  It was dark.  There isn't much lighting the coastal plain of North Carolina in areas except stars and the moon, so it was difficult for me to visualize the activity of the air overhead. What I did see from moment to moment were faint funnel clouds overhead.  There were many of them, BUT, the upper winds were moving so fast they didn't have the opportunity to form into strong enough systems that would touch down and none of them did.  There was no damage to NC that night.


I am hoping the Pacific System has mixed enough hot and cold air to neutralize turbulence and to produce only straight line winds or better yet winds strong enough to move the two air masses across the country to prevent the possibility of tornadoes.  It is looking way so far.

The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment of the USA Constitution are now violated.

This is a trend the country is seeing in regard to Constitutional Rights and long standing precedent with the Vote of 2010. There is a title for you, "The Vote of 2010."

Now, add to the assault against the US Constitution and long standing precedent legislatively throughout the country at State and Federal Levels, the Robert's Court and its willingness to be the sledgehammer to finalize the destruction of our rights.

THE VOTE OF 2012 is about returning the status of our Constitution to its sovereignty. These legislative initiatives seek to destroy the USA sovereignty and use it's facade to enact an oppressive government seeking to hand control to the Plutocracy. It will be the end of the Middle Class and our freedoms.

A couple of things are beginning to worry me.

March 2, 2012
0230:00 z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite of USA (click here for 12 hour loop)

I have to include a hemispheric image in order to better define this, but, to begin there is a circulation center that is beginning to consolidate in a central rotation found at the border between Canada and North Dakota.


I was more defuse with less punch about an hour or so ago, but, the center of the circulation is taking shape.  I think we are going to see high velocity winds in several forms tonight and tomorrow.

March 2, 2012
0330:00z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)

There is a reason why the central circulation is developing at the border of ND and Canada.    It is the fast moving question shaped air mass off the Pacific Coast.  It is probably easier to see in Water Vapor.  But, that Pacific Air Mass is hauling hot water vapor from the Equatorial Air Mass and taking it right into the Arctic Air Mass.  The velocity is really picking up speed and causing the circulation center over ND to take on definition.

March 2, 2012
0330:00z
UNISYS Water Vapor Hemispheric Satellite of North and West Earth Hemisphere (click title to entry for 12 hour loop - thank you)


I don't like it.  There is not only a lot of hot and cold mixing that will cause turbulence, but, there is a variety of wind velocities.  There is most likely going to be straight line winds along with what is not developing in the ND/Canada border, namely a vortex.


Optimistically, the hot and cold mixing over the Pacific might blunt the turbulence, but, the sheer mass of that Pacific system and its affect on the system at the Canada/ND border spells trouble to me.  Either way the Enhanced Infared is showing intermittent consolidation of activity and that can't be good, unless it continues to consolidate and disperse.  It might be the Pacific system may tame what is occurring over the continent and the nation will only have to deal with winds.  Let's hope so, but, the air mass by size and density that has resulted in that 'pushing' dynamic is a worry.


At this moment the Graphton, North Dakota / Winnepeg, Mannitoba, Canada region is seeking sincere central rotation of that system.  It is moving east, northeast, but, only slightly.

Romney's latest billionaire crony turned energy adviser. Harold Hamm.

He IS hydraulic fracturing and he IS the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline.  


Romney's camp is corrupt from top to bottom filled with cronies that will profit even more from his candidacy with a chance to win the Executive Branch.


It is the truth and there is no denying it.  If I may?

...Mitt Romney,(click here) the front-runner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, appointed Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm as energy adviser to his campaign.

Hamm, the 66-year-old founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Continental Resources Inc. (CLR), will be chairman of Romney’s Energy Policy Advisory Group, the candidate’s campaign office said in a statement today.

Hamm ranked 36th on Forbes magazine’s list last year of the 400 wealthiest Americans. His 68 percent stake in Enid, Oklahoma-based Continental, the largest leaseholder in the Bakken oil formation, had a value of $11.2 billion as of yesterday’s close....

Forbes has Hamm listed as the 33rd richest man in the USA.  He is worth more than this listing in Forbes:

Harold Hamm (click here)

Net Worth

$7.5 B As of September 2011

He is actually worth $8.6 billion.  You could easily call him a Dick Cheney protege.  He practically owns Oklahoma as the fourth largest economic operation in the state.  His fortune is comprised of primarily three enterprises and they are all entrenched in fossil fuels, there is nothing alternative energy about this guy.  He can't hold a candle to Secretary Chu.  Hamm would not know the business end of a nuclear reactor if his life depended on it.

His primary operation is "Continental Resources." 

ContinentalResources' Earnings Beat Last Year's by 63% (click here)

updated 2/23/2012 4:24:31 AM ET

By Seth Jayson

...Looking ahead Next quarter's average estimate for revenue is $493.1 million....

Hamm is one of the guys that eats dinner with your gasoline price at the pump.

...Continental's (click here) output has continued to rise over the past year as new wells in North Dakota and Oklahoma deliver strong results. Climbing oil prices have also helped the company's top line, though losses on derivative contracts have sometimes overshadowed higher revenue from oil and gas sales....

Continental is Hamm's oil operations in Oklahoma and North Dakota.  But, where his holdings gets really interesting in with "Hiland Partners" and "Hiland Holdings as mentioned below.

He (Hamm) also serves as Chairman of the board of directors (click here) of the general partner of Hiland Partners LP and as Chairman of the board of directors of the general partner of Hiland Holdings GP, LP ("Hiland Holdings"). Hiland Holdings owns the general partner interest and units in Hiland Partners LP. He also serves as a director of Complete Production Services, Inc., a NYSE publicly traded oil and gas service company. Harold is past chairman of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association and served as a founding board member of the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board. He was President of the National Stripper Well Association and founder and Chairman of Save Domestic Oil, Inc. He recently co-founded the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance to preserve the oil and gas markets for oil and gas produced in the United States. In 2011, he was inducted into the OIPA’s Wildcatters Hall of Honor, the association’s highest recognition.

Click here for Hiland Partners Asset Map. (click here)

The most northern location is Norse Natural Gas Gathering System in North Dakota.  

• Location: Williams, Divide and Burke Counties, North Dakota
• Miles of Pipe: 74 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines
• Gathering Capacity: 25,000 Mcf/d
• Processing Capacity: 25,000 Mcf/d
• Basin/Formation(s): Williston; Bakken Shale and Three Forks/Sanish

This is a map of the USA and Canada.  North Dakota is in the north next to Canada and Oklahoma is in the south next to Texas.

Right? To the right is the Canadian Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, just northeast of North Dakota. And below is the proposed route for the Keystone XL Pipeline, right through the middle of the "Hilard Partners" North Dakota properties.  I'll be darn.

The Keystone XL Pipeline goes all the way to Port Arthur Texas right through Oklahoma. Interesting. Strange coincidence. See, the other properties, of which there are four in Oklahoma, of "Hiland Partners" is their headquarter in Enid. Enid is about less than one hundred miles northeast of Cushing, Oklahoma. I mean how much of a map of cronyism has to be drawn to know how corrupt Romney's campaign is?

Hiland Holdings (click here) lets.Hiland Partners do all the work. The company owns a 2% general partner interest in the natural gas gathering and processing company. Hiland Partners serves primarily the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the US. It maintains natural gas gathering systems, processing plants, treating facilities, and NGL fractionation facilities. Hiland Partners supplies natural gas and NGL products to transmission pipelines and various markets. Hiland Partners chairman Harold Hamm owns about 32% of Hiland Holdings and plans to take both companies private.

Hiland Holdings is the processing operation for natural gas into liquified natural gas. He and good ole Boone are probably the best of buddies. Yeah, buoy.

If this news (click here) doesn't make T. Boone Pickens at least a little happy, then I don't know what will.  The familiar brown-clad package carrier, United Parcel Service(NYSE: UPS), has purchased 48 new liquified natural gas (LNG)-powered tractors to add to its long-haul fleet operating in the southwest U.S.  The vehicles, which will replace older generation diesel vehicles, are expected to produce 25 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions and displace 95 percent of fuel used by conventional diesel vehicles – an impressive savings of approximately 4,000 gallon a day for these 48 vehicles.

So there it is. The Romney Energy plan is to strip the USA of any reason to protect its agricultural lands and pump and frack until the cows come home. And Mr. Hamm's company Continental is doing really well. They are moving their headquarter soon to a different city in Oklahoma.

Our operations (click here) are focused on the Red River Units, Anadarko Woodford and Bakken field plays. Our operating strategy is to create shareholder value through organic growth and applying advanced technology to harvest oil and natural gas resources.

Although we evaluate strategic acquisitions periodically, our technical staff has internally generated substantially all of the opportunities for the investment of our capital.

Above is the operations map for Continental Resources.  I would just hate for them to run out of capital.  That would be a darn shame since they have such dedicated investment. So there is Romney's energy plan and the man in charge of it to make it all happen regardless of what is best for the USA and its agricultural sector and Clean Water Act.

The Drought is becoming a systemic problem.

The west coast is an increasing worry.  The southern border is experiencing it across the entire four states next to Mexico.  The Mississippi River System is holding up, but, the southeast USA is seeing a deeper drought.


The total picture is not improving.

Texas drought twists migrations of many birds (click title to entry - thank you)

Associated Press


Posted: Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:41 am

Strange things are aloft in the bird world.

Endangered whooping cranes flew 2,500 miles from Canada to Texas, where they usually spend the whole winter. Instead, they pecked around for a short time and flew back. In Nebraska, other cranes never left.

Some ducks just kept flying south _ all the way to Belize in Central America. And a snowy owl was spotted near Dallas, only the sixth time that's ever happened.

Throughout the winter, scientists have noticed these and other examples of bizarre bird migrations _ a result, they believe, of flocks becoming desperate for food and habitat becoming increasingly scarce because of the stubborn drought in Texas. The unusually mild winter in the Northeast and Midwest has even persuaded some birds they could stay put, fly shorter distances or turn back north earlier than normal....

It isn't just Texas profoundly effected by the drought.  This is Kansas.  Salina, Kansas is about in the center of the state.  This is from the Salina Journal News.  I think the University of Kansas is there.  No, no that is Manhattan, Kansas.  The State University is in Manhattan which is about 100 miles or so east of Salina.  Garden City, Kansas is near the west Kansas border.

Drought forces temporary move of 40 animals (click here)

3/1/2012


GARDEN CITY — A two-year drought is forcing the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) to move bison from the Sandsage Bison Range and Wildlife Area, near Garden City, to Maxwell Wildlife Area, in McPherson County north of Canton. The drought has depleted forage on the area, and the move is being made to protect both the sensitive range as well as the bison....