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Wisconsin ecoregion map prepared by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The list of ecoregions in Wisconsin are listings of terrestrial ecoregions (see also, ecosystem) in the United States' State of Wisconsin, as defined separately by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and the World Wildlife Fund.
In the United States, the EPA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are the principal federal agencies working with the CEC to define and map ecoregions. Ecoregions may be identified by similarities in geology, physiography, vegetation, climate, soils, land use, wildlife distributions, and hydrology.
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The Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains is an ecoregion in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois in the United States. It is a Level III ecoregion in the classification system of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where it is designated as ecoregion number 53. The ecoregion represents a transition between the ...
Category: Ecoregions of the United States by state. ... Ecoregions of Wisconsin (5 P) This page was last edited on 26 October 2023, at 15:59 (UTC). ...
Map of Minnesota ecoregions, with the centrally-located Big Woods in aqua Big Woods refers to a type of temperate hardwood forest ecoregion found in western Wisconsin and south-central Minnesota . "Big Woods" is a direct translation of the name given to the region by French explorers: Grand Bois .
The Transition Hills have some of the higher elevations in Ecoregion 65, and contain characteristics of both the Southeastern Plains and the Interior Plateau (71) ecoregions. Many streams in this transition area have cut down into the Mississippian , Devonian , and Silurian -age rocks and can look similar to those of the Interior Plateau.
Professor Lawrence Martin created a schema for dividing Wisconsin into geographical regions in his work "The Physical Geography of Wisconsin". [1] [2] Western Upland; Eastern Ridges and Lowlands; Central Plain; Northern Highland; Lake Superior Lowland; Three of these geographical provinces are uplands and two are lowlands.