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The Volgenau Virginia Coast Reserve (prior to August 2020 known as the Virginia Coast Reserve) is a biosphere reserve created by The Nature Conservancy in the early 1970s. It consists of 40,000 acres across 14 of the Virginia Barrier Islands along the Atlantic coast of the Virginia portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Parramore Island, Hog Island, Virginia, Smith Island, Virginia ...
Christie Boser from The Nature Conservancy with a specimen of Urocyon littoralis, a small fox endemic to California's Channel Islands. The Nature Conservancy has over one million members across the world as of 2021. [33] [34] As of 2014, it was the largest environmental non-profit organization by assets and revenue in the Americas. [35]
The Nature Conservancy Kankakee Sands is a 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) complex of tallgrass prairie and oak savanna restorations and remnants in Kankakee County, Illinois and Newton County, Indiana . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is managed by The Nature Conservancy staff and volunteers.
The Nature Conservancy: Public – Limited access 1995 Watauga River Bluffs State Natural Area: II Carter: 50 20 State of Tennessee: Public – Full access 1998 William B. Clark Conservation Area II Fayette: 460 190 The Nature Conservancy: Public – Full access 2000 William L. Davenport Refuge State Natural Area II Polk: 120 49 State of Tennessee
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Oases form in all four deserts when the groundwater reaches the surface and pools in the hollows of the desert basins. [10] Being surrounded by mountains provides a rain shadow effect that contributes to the dry climate and creates the desert ecosystem. [11] All four deserts experience times of drought and times of intense precipitation. [12]
A Nature Conservancy planning process, aimed at building a restored tallgrass prairie ecosystem in Illinois, commenced in 1985; the first major land acquisition of 400 acres (160 ha) occurred in 1986. [4] By 2022, the total current acreage had grown to over 4,100 acres (1,700 ha). [1] [2]
The Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, in Osage County, Oklahoma near Foraker, Oklahoma, is the largest protected tract of tallgrass prairie in the world. . Managed by The Nature Conservancy, the preserve contains 39,650 acres (160 km 2) owned by the Conservancy and another 6,000 acres (24 km 2) leased in what was the original tallgrass region of the Great Plains that stretched ...