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Great Plains Conservation is conservation and tourism organization, which helps to manage several wildlife reserves in Kenya, Botswana, [1] and Zimbabwe. The group currently operates 18 safari camps, [ 2 ] which include luxury lodges and tented camps.
The Great Plains Conservation Program (GPCP), initiated in 1957, provided cost share and technical assistance to apply conservation on entire farms in 10 Great Plains states from the Dakotas and Montana to Texas and New Mexico. Contracts were limited to $35,000.
Pages in category "Nature conservation organizations based in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 259 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The company's charity arm, Great Plains Foundation, focuses on preserving and protecting landscapes, wildlife and the communities that rely on them. [ citation needed ] In 2009, the Jouberts founded the Big Cats Initiative with National Geographic, [ 8 ] a long-term effort to halt the decline of big cats in the wild and protect the ecosystems ...
The ecology of the Great Plains is diverse, largely owing to their great size. Differences in rainfall, elevation, and latitude create a variety of habitats including short grass, mixed grass, and tall-grass prairies, and riparian ecosystems. [1] The Great Plains extend from Mexico in the south through the central United States to central ...
The shortgrass prairie is an ecosystem located in the Great Plains of North America.The two most dominant grasses in the shortgrass prairie are blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) and buffalograss (Bouteloua dactyloides), the two less dominant grasses in the prairie are greasegrass (Tridens flavus) and sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula).
This is a region of rolling plains and eroded plateaus, with a humid subtropical climate in the south and humid continental climate in the north. It is notable for its extensive karst limestone, which comprise the caves at Mammoth Cave National Park. This region includes a portion of what the U.S. Forest service calls the "Central Hardwood Forest".
Contains one of the few stands in Indiana where beech, sugar maple, and tulip poplar grow on alluvial Genesee soil. Cabin Creek Raised Bog: 1974: Farmland: Randolph: Private One of the few known inland raised bogs in the United States. It has a very rich flora including many species at or near their range limits.