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In November 2009 The Kansas City Star published an editorial that claimed the aquifer was almost depleted and noted the biggest asset of the high plains was its prairie. It supported the creation of a million-acre (4,000 km 2) Buffalo Commons National Park in western Kansas. [10] The editorial suggested such a park could satisfy several goals:
The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States (1973); Comprehensive coverage of the 1950s and 1960s in each state. Raban, Jonathan. Bad Land: An American Romance (Vintage 1996); winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Rees, Amanda.
The site is owned and operated by the National Park Service and Preservation Virginia, also serving as a unit of Colonial National Historical Park. [64] John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Massachusetts: 0.09 acres (0.00036 km 2) John F. Kennedy was a part of the Kennedy political family and served as the 35th President of the United States.
Native American heritage sites are sites specifically created in many National Park Sites in the United States to commemorate the contribution of the Native American cultures. The term ‘Native American’ includes all cultural groups that predate the arrival of either western European or East coast explorers and settlers.
Hell Gap (Smithsonian trinomial: 48GO305) is a deeply stratified archaeological site located in the Great Plains of eastern Wyoming, approximately thirteen miles north of Guernsey, where an abundant amount of Paleoindian and Archaic artifacts have been found and excavated since 1959. [2]
Fauna of the Great Plains (4 C, 34 P) Fauna of the Plains-Midwest (United States) (7 C, 129 P) Flora of the Great Plains (North America) (2 C, 91 P)
Yellowstone National Park was established on March 1, 1872 [36] where poaching of bison continued despite the presence of the First U.S. Cavalry soldiers at Fort Yellowstone to, in part, protect wildlife. [20] Bison dwindled to about two dozen animals that spent winter in Pelican Valley. In May 1894, Congress passed the Act to Protect the Birds ...
The National Grasslands Visitor Center in Wall, South Dakota is part of the Buffalo Gap National Grassland – Wall Ranger District. The center features exhibits about grassland wildlife and plants, grazing management and the history of the Great Plains. There is also a theater with a video about the grasslands, restrooms and a gift shop.
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