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MAP OF ECOREGIONS OF NEBRASKA AND KANSAS
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The ecoregions of Kansas and Nebraska have been identified, mapped, and described and provide a geographic structure for environmental resources research, assessment, monitoring, and management. This project is part of a larger effort by the U.S. EPA to create a national, hierarchical ecoregion framework. This ecoregion framework is methodologically consistent with those developed elsewhere by the U.S. EPA and allows biologists and resource managers to share and compare environmental data across political boundaries. The amount of environmental detail that is delineated at different hierarchical levels varies from level I, the broadest grouping, to level IV, the most detailed.
The Kansas and Nebraska project refined and subdivided the level III ecological regions of Kansas and Nebraska. It involved researchers fromU.S. EPA National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory - Corvallis, the U.S. EPA Region 7, the US Forest Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the US Geological Survey, the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality, the Nebraska Games and Parks Commission, the Kansas Biological Survey, the Kansas Geological Survey, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. It will be published as a double-sided, color poster by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and will measure 34 x 44 inches. The poster includes an original 1:1,195,000 scale map that delineates the eleven level III ecological regions and forty level IV ecoregions of Kansas and Nebraska. Each ecoregion is described in the accompanying text and tables. Five other posters in the ecoregion series have already been published by the USGS and cover eight states.
Level IV ecoregion frameworks have been developed by the US EPA for Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia and parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Oregon, and Washington; other projects are in progress for Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the remainder of Oregon and Washington.