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This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in California is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Name
1% for Orchid Conservation (1%FOC) Orchid Societies and businesses that participate in 1% FOC commit to budget 1% or more of their net revenue towards in situ orchid conservation projects of their choice. [1] Living Orchid Collection (LOC) The primary purpose of LOC is to have an organized, virtual, living orchid species collection.
Nevada State Museum and Historical Society: Established: 1982 [1] Location: 309 S. Valley View Blvd. (on the campus of the Springs Preserve) Las Vegas, Nevada 89107: Type: General or Multi disciplinary (several subjects) Accreditation: The American Alliance of Museums: Key holdings
The Southern Nevada Zoological-Botanical Park, informally known as the Las Vegas Zoo, [3] was a 3-acre (1.2 ha), nonprofit zoo and botanical garden located in Las Vegas, Nevada that operated from 1981 to September 20, 2013. It was located northwest of the Las Vegas Strip, about 15 minutes away. [2]
The original title of the bulletin was American Orchid Society Bulletin from 1932 to 1995. [note 2] [11] Volume 1, Issue 1 of The American Orchid Society Bulletin was published in June 1932. [12] It was styled, "A magazine devoted to the popularizing of orchids and their culture". [12] The first editor was David Lumsden. [12]
It includes the northern portion of the San Joaquin Valley (which itself is the southern portion of the Central Valley, beginning at the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta), part of the Central Coast, the central hills of the California Coast Ranges and the foothills and mountain areas of the central Sierra Nevada.
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The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California, United States. It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state .