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Land and Life on the
North American Prairie
by Robert E. Ford |
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Topical Themes
Resources by Region - Ecosystem
Topical Themes
| Agriculture
and Land/Soil Resources || Biology,
Biogeography and Ecology |
| Climate and Weather || Geology,
Geomorphology and Paleontology |
| Human
Dimensions: History, Settlement and Policy || Quaternary
Studies and Glaciation |
| Remote
Sensing and GIA (Geographic Information Analysis) |
| Water Issues: Lakes,
Rivers, Groundwater |
Agriculture and
Land/Soil Resources
Biology, Biogeography and Ecology
Climate and Weather
Geology, Geomorphology
and Paleontology
Human
Dimensions: History, Settlement and Policy
See also by Regions and Ecosystems:
Quaternary Studies
and Glaciation
Remote
Sensing and GIA (Geographic Information Analysis)
Water Issues: Lakes, Rivers,
Groundwater
See also: Mississippi/Missouri Basin and the Great
Lakes and Saline Lakes (Case 6)
Resources by Region - Ecosystem
| North American Midcontinent
- General || Eastern Prairie Zone: Prairie-Forest
Boundary |
| Middle Prairie
Zone: Tallgrass Prairie, Transition Prairie |
| Upper
Midwest/Great Lakes Region - Forest/Northern plains |
| Great
Plains and Shortgrass Prairies/Steppes || Mississippi
/ Missouri Basin |
North American Midcontinent - General:
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16th
North American Prairie Conference - proceedings, University of Nebraska
- Kearney. July 1998.
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Bureau of Land Management,
Environmental Education homepage
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Center for Grassland Studies,
University of Nebraska
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Center for Great Plains Studies,
University of Nebraska--Lincoln - extensive resource list - Plains
Links
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CIESIN/EPA
Information System gateway - home
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Critical
Ecoregions Program - Sierra Club US
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Ecological Society of America
- homepage
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Ecological
Subregions of the US - by the US Forest Service ECOMAP Team.
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Ecosystem
Domains - Continental US (USFS classification)
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Ecosystem
Divisions - continental US (USFS classification)
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Ecosystem
Provinces - Continental US (USFS classification)
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Ecozones of Canada - Terrestrial
Ecozones of Canada - homepage
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Endangered
and extinct species lists by region (USA)
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Environmental Contaminants
Program - US Fish and Wildlife Service
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Enviro$ense - EPA - one-stop site for
all pollution and economics issues/data
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EPA Region 6 - home (Texas,
New Mexico....)
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EPA Region 9 - home Arizona/California
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Fire and the Prairie
module
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Fire
Ecology - Simulating Fire Patterns in Heterogeneous Landscapes
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Fire's
Role in Prairie Survival - article on Konza Prairie research - Environmental
News Network, May 1998.
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GAP
Analysis - Upper Midwest Home Page
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Grazing Fees and Rangeland
Management - Congressional Research Service Report
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Great North
American Prairie Ecoregion - Sierra Club
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Great
Plains Alkali Wetlands vs Great Lakes - wetlands article - University
of Missouri/Columbia
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Green Landscaping with Native
Wildflowers and Grasses - EPA.
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Ground
Water in the Northern High Plains
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HazDat - CDC/ATSDR's
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry
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High
Plains Aquifer - home
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High Plains Climate Center - home
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln).
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How to Protect
our Imperiled Pollinators - article by NWF - National Wildlife Federation
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Images
Illustrating Environmental Subjects - California and the West.
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Integrated Population, Land Use
and Emissions Data Project - CIESIN
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Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Austin, Texas.
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LUHNA - Land Use History of North
America Project
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Medicinal
Plants of the Prairie - Texas A & M Univ
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MESC
- Midcontinent Ecological Science Center Home Page
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Midwestern Climate Center - hydrologic
data on Upper Mississippi / Missouri Basin
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Midwestern Wetlands
Flora -guide
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Mountain-Prairie area
- US Fish & Wildlife Service - Region
6
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NAID - North American Integration
and Development Center - home
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NAMI - North American
Institute - home
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National Drought Mitigation Center
- UNL
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National Heritage Network - home
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National Library for the
Environment - NIE
-
National Resources Inventory
- USDA
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Native Cultures
of the Americas - Virtual Tour/Smithsonian Institution
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Native
Plants Resources from Grand Prairie Friends - extensive lists
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Nematodes
of the Northern Great Plains
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NIGEC - Great Plains Regional
Center - UNL
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North American Development Bank
- home
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North
American Skies Home Page - astronomy
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Northern
Plains Ecoregion, Sierra Club
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Northern
Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, ND
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NPSC
-- Northern Prairie Science Center - Biological Resources
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NRI - National
Resource Inventory - Land Trends in the US
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Ogallala
Aquifer - Middle School Student Paper.
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Pastures
of Prairie Keep Cattle in Fine Fettle, article from Missouri Department
of Conservation.
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People and Climate Change
on the Great Plains - teachers materials.
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Plains
Indians Cultures - National Museum of Natural History/Smithsonian
Institution
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Plant America - comprehensive
site on all things plants!
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Plant Species
on the prairies
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Planting
a Prairie - Restoration process
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Prairie
Enthusiasts of West Central Wisconsin and its LINKS!
- excellent resources!
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Prairie
Restoration and Resource Guide - University of Texas, Geographer's
Craft Project
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Prairie Species
Table - Kenneth Robertson
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Prairie Wetlands
Ecology Team - University of Manitoba
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Ranges
of North American Breeding Birds
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Rocky Mountain
Environmental Directory - home
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Shortgrass Steppe
LTER and examples of Potential
Natural Vegetation mapping.
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State of the Land - homepage - US NCRS America's
Private Land: a Geography of Hope? - info on US Land situation, maps,
data, etc.
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Tatanka
Project, Sierra Club - Reintroduction of Buffalo - Northern Plains
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Terrestrial
Ecozones of Canada - homepage
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TED (Trade and
Environment Database) of case studies - Mexico and North America
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United
States Surface-Water Data Retrieval.
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US Central
Plains and Global Warming - study by Duke University.
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US Fish and Wildlife Service - Region
3.
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Water
Quality in the Prairie Ecosystem - Environment Canada.
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Water Supply Outlook -
US West
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Waterways Experiment Station - US
Army Corp of Engineers
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Western
Hemisphere Shorebirds Reserve Network
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Western
Lands Environment GOPHER - documents of many types
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Wetlands
Losses in the United States - 1780s to 1980s
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Wetlands
Loss and Degradation in the US - article
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Wildflowers
and Prairie Grass Seed by Prairie Frontier
Eastern Prairie Zone: Prairie-Forest
Boundary
Indiana:
Ohio:
Middle Prairie
Zone: Tallgrass Prairie Transition
Iowa
Missouri:
Wisconsin:
Illinois:
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50
Years of Change in Illinois Hill Prairies - Kent Robertson and others
-
At
Home in the Heartland Online Home - Illinois Science Museum
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Belmont Prairie
- Illinois
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Big
Eastern: The Edge of the Prairie - Oak & Sand Prairies - Chicago
region
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Chicago
Wilderness Nature Preserve - many links including biodiversity atlas
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Chicago Wilderness site and its GIS
homepage
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Department of Earth and Environmental
Sciences, University of Illinois--Chicago
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Dino
Russ's Lair - Illinois Geological Survey, Dinosaur site
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EarthNet
InfoServer - ISGS - Illinois State Geological Survey - Dinosaur and
other paleontology information
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East-Central
Illinois prairie resources
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Farmbill Illinois
- local applications
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Fermilab
Prairie - Illinois
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Garfield
Farm and Inn Museum - Kane County Illinois
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Geographic Modeling Systems Lab,
University of Illinois
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Grand
Prairie Friends - organization - Illinois
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Goose
Lake Prairie - State Natural area - Illinois
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Illinois
Department of Natural Resources - state agency
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Illinois
Ecosystems - Illinois Museum of Natural History
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Illinois Natural Resources
Information Network
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Illinois NRCS - home
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Illinois State Geological
Survey - and its Resources
for Teaching Geology
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ISGS - Illinois State
Geological Survey - Geology
Underfoot in Illinois - modules, images and links to field guides
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Illinois - NRCS (Natural Resources
Conservation Service)
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Illinois Natural
Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse - GIS products
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Illinois Natural History
Survey - home page
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Illinois
Prairie Page - Directory of Prairies in Illinois
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Illinois
Prairie - From Galleon's Lap
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Illinois State Geological
Survey - Ask-a-Geologist program. See also links from homepage
to Sally's Alley
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Illinois State Water Supply - home
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Map of Natural
Divisions (ecosystems) - Illinois (Kent Robertson).
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Mazon Creek
Fossils, Illinois
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Meadowbrook
Prairie - Southeast Urbana, Illinois
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Midewin
National Tallgrass Prairie - former military base - Joliet Arsenal
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Museums
in the Classroom - Chicago Museums of Science
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PLAN-IT
Illinois - Innovative K-12 science curriculum based on Illinois Critical
Ecosystems Trends Assessments
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Prairie
Cemeteries - Illinois
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Prairie
in Illinois - bibliography
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Prairie
Index by Counties - Illinois
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Prairienet
Community Information Network - University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Prairie
Restoration - Ledermann Science Education Center - Teacher outreach
- Fermi Lab
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Sierra Club
Prairie Group of Illinois.
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Southern 7 GIS Project (seven counties at tip of Illinois) - landscape
analysis, slope, and erosion potential - see NRCS
site
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Tallgrass Prairie
in Illinois - excellent module by Kent Robertson, Illinois Natural
Survey
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Threatened
and endangered species - Illinois prairies
Mississippi / Missouri Basin
See more resources in Case 2 - Mississippi/Missouri Floods
Upper
Midwest/Great Lakes Region - Forest/Northern Plains
**See also under Case 6 - Saline Lakes
Great Lakes Region:
Canada:
Michigan:
Minnesota:
Great
Plains and Shortgrass Prairies/ Steppes
General:
Arizona:
See also US-Mexico Border Case 5
California:
See also US-Mexico Border Case 5
Colorado Plateau/State of Colorado:
Dakotas:
Kansas:
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Becoming Native to this
Place - review of book by West Jackson /Land Institute - Salina, Kansas
- see also article-High
Country News about West Jackson
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Center for Great Plains
Studies, Kansas (Emporia State Univ) websites
list
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EarthShots:
satellite images of environmental change - USGS (see Garden City, Kansas)
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ENC - Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
- center for Math / Sciences K-12 support - Salina Kansas.
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Fire's
Role in Prairie Survival - article on Konza Prairie research - Environmental
News Network, May 1998.
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Fort Larned National Historical
site and related resources (Kansas), e.g. Santa Fe Trail
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Global
Change & Local Places Study - Toledo / Kansas / Appalachia
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INK - Information Network - State of
Kansas
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Kansas
birds page
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Kansas
Department of Wildlife and Parks - animal photos/graphics, etc
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Kansas
Heritage Center web resources
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Kansas - The Nature
Conservancy - Flint
Hills Tallgrass Prairie
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Konza Prairie LTER,
Kansas and resource lists and the Konza
Preserve page
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Konza Prairie Research Natural Area
- Kansas State University
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Native Kansas
Prairie websites
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Northern Flint Hills Newsletter - Kansas Audobon Society -The
Prairie Falcon site
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Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
- ZBar/Spring Hill Ranch, Flint Hills, Kansas (National Trust)
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Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
- Flint Hills, Kansas (National Park Service site)
Nebraska:
New Mexico:
See also US-Mexico Border Case 5
Oklahoma:
Texas:
See also US-Mexico Border Case 5
Wyoming/Montana/Idaho (Palouse Prairie
and Rocky Mountains Province):
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CEU
Dinosaur Museum - College of Eastern Utah, Price, Utah
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College
of Mines and Earth Resources - University of Idaho
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Dinosaur National
Monument - travel site (Vernal, Utah)
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Earthquakes
in Wyoming
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EarthTalk Studios
- Wyoming/Yellowstone
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Fire
Ecology - Landscape Dynamics of Yellowstone National Park: The Role
of Fire 1690 to 1990
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Fire
Ecology - Simulating Fire Patterns in Heterogeneous Landscapes
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Fire
Ecology - SIR-C/X-SAR image Yellowstone Park, Wyoming
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Fossil Butte National Monument
(near Kemmerer, Wyoming) - activities, photos of fossils of the Green River
Formation.
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Geology
of the Grand Teton National Park
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Greater Yellowstone Coalition
- home
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Greater
Yellowstone Area Page - search of webpages in the region
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Idaho Geological
Survey - home
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Idaho
Natural Resources Page
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The
lesser roadless areas of the Caribou National Forest - Southeast Idaho/Overthrust
Belt - photos and environmental survey
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Montana
DNRC Homepage - Dept of Natural Resources and Conservation
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MontanaWeb - online
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PCEI Palouse
Clearwater Environmental Institute - home
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Rocky Mountain
Environmental Directory - home
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State of Wyoming - homepage
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The
Wild Rockies Bioregion - environmental group information site - The
Wild Rockies Slate
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University of Utah, Department of Geology
& Geophysics
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University of Wyoming, Department
of Geology and Geophysics
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University of Wyoming, Department
of Geography and Recreation
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USGS - Geological Information
on Wyoming - home
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USGS - Programs in Montana
- home/list
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USGS - Programs in Idaho
- home
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USGS - Programs in Utah
- home
-
USGS - Programs in Wyoming
- home
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Utah
State - Department of Natural Resources - Division of Oil, Gas and
Mining page
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Utah State - Geological Survey
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Wyoming
State Geological Survey (WSGS) - home
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Virtual
Geology - Idaho
Geological Survey - home
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Virtual
Wyoming - home
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Wild
Rockies Field Institute - environmental organization
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Wyoming Electronic
Scout - travel page
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Wyoming Game and Fish - state agency
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Wyoming WWW resources
- from University of Wyoming, Geographic Alliance
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Wyoming WWW resources - Library,
University of Wyoming.
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Yellowstone
Association - home - sources of information, bookstore, etc.Yellowstone
Association Geology Products
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Yellowstone
Caldera, Wyoming - Cascades Volcano Observatory/USGS.
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Yellowstone Ecosystem Studies
site
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Yellowstone Geographic -
science and regional site - EXCELLENT!
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Yellowstone geysers information
-
YellowstoneNet - homepage and
its COOL LINKS!
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Yellowstone
volcanic maps, etc an ETE
/ COTF Module (NASA Classroom of the Future)
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