MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | A_VIEW_OF_A_PORTION_OF_KONZA_PRAIRIE,_1,000_ACRES_OF_VIRGIN_TALLGRASS_PRAIRIE_NEAR_MANHATTAN,_KANSAS_-_NARA_-_557189.tif (3000x2023) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: A VIEW OF A PORTION OF KONZA PRAIRIE, 1,000 ACRES OF VIRGIN TALLGRASS PRAIRIE NEAR MANHATTAN, KANSAS - NARA - 557189.tif Scope and content A VIEW OF A PORTION OF KONZA PRAIRIE 1 000 ACRES OF VIRGIN TALLGRASS PRAIRIE NEAR MANHATTAN KANSAS ALTHOUGH THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN IN AUGUST DURING A SUMMER OF EXTREME DROUGHT THE PRAIRIE REMAINS GREEN BECAUSE ITS GRASS ROOTS GROW SO DEEP THE NATIVE TALL GRASSES RETAIN 18 TIMES THE MOISTURE OF CULTIVATED GRASSES SUCH AS WHEAT CORN AND BLUEGRASS ONE ACRE OF NATIVE TALLGRASS RELEASES THE SAME AMOUNT OF MOISTURE AS A 70-TON AIR CONDITIONER BALDWIN's IRONWEED SEEN IN THE FOREGROUND IS A COMMON TALLGRASS PRAIRIE PLANT General notes 557189 Local identifier 412-DA-14737 Environmental Protection Agency 12/02/1970 - NARA-Author Duncan Patricia D 1932- Photographer 8464441 <br /> Manhattan Riley Kansas United States North and Central America inhabited place 4202023 39 2 -96 6 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 08/1974 Record group Record Group 412 Records of the Environmental Protection Agency 1944 - 2006 Record group ARC 708 DOCUMERICA The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern compiled 1972 - 1977 Series ARC 542493 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers Agency-Assigned Identifier 246/37/014737<br /> NAIL Control Number NWDNS-412-DA-14737 yes Other versions <gallery> File A_VIEW_OF_A_PORTION_OF_KONZA_PRAIRIE _1 000_ACRES_OF_VIRGIN_TALLGRASS_PRAIRIE_NEAR_MANHATTAN _KANSAS_-_NARA_-_557189 tif tif File A_VIEW_OF_A_PORTION_OF_KONZA_PRAIRIE _1 000_ACRES_OF_VIRGIN_TALLGRASS_PRAIRIE_NEAR_MANHATTAN _KANSAS_-_NARA_-_557189 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs Kansas Konza Prairie Preserve Kansas 1974 Tallgrass prairies North America Vernonia baldwinii Flora of Kansas 1974 in Kansas | ||||