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An image of the Haskell-Baker Wetlands during the winter, looking north (2017) The Haskell-Baker Wetlands during the spring (2009) The Haskell-Baker Wetlands (also known as the Baker Wetlands) is a nature preserve and artificially sustained wetland, [1] spanning approximately 927 acres (3.8 km 2) [2] south of Lawrence, Kansas, United States.
Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]
Kansas Wetlands Educational Center: Great Bend: Barton: Central: website, education center for 49,000-acre wetlands of the Cheyenne Bottoms and the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, operated by Fort Hays State University and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks: Milford Nature Center: Junction City: Geary: Flint Hills
A remaining tract of 600 acres (2.4 km 2), the Haskell-Baker Wetlands, is located south of Lawrence near Haskell Indian Nations University. Though the wetlands below the dam are mostly dry now, along the Wakarusa above Clinton Lake, former cropland has been converted into a new wetland area
The plans for the recreation center located across from the Bluffton school complex on Buckwalter Parkway had to be changed significantly. Three baseball fields, equipped with a press box and ...
Lacassine NWR is managed intensively for waterfowl and other Louisiana coastal wetland species. The refuge has a wetland management program in which water levels are manipulated for managing naturally occurring marsh and moist soil plants and a Copeland management program where crops are planted to provide food for wintering waterfowl that ...
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Here, a spicy gumbo of African, Native American, Cajun, Creole and Southern influences forged a unique culture. Louisiana's coastal location (the state contains 40% of all the coastal wetlands in the continental U.S. according to the National Wetlands Research Center) was both a boon and a bane to the city. New Orleans evolved into the busiest ...