Free Land In North Dakota
Immigrants: North Dakota, Land of Opportunity
Northern Dakota Territory in 1870 was a sea of grass waiting for the plow share. With the end of the Civil War, America saw an unprecedented surge of immigrants land on its shores. Many of them were in search of free land offered through the Homestead Act. The immigrants and the land came together on the northern Great Plains from the 1870s into the early twentieth century. This explosion of people, farming, and building transformed, in a surprisingly short time, the flat, rich land of eastern North Dakota—the Red River Valley. The landscape became dotted with small farms, around which trees had been planted to shelter them from the almost incessant wind; with towns situated along the railroad lines like a web across the prairie; and the most impressive scene of all, the seemingly endless fields of grain. ... [Read More]
North Dakota Furtakers
This trapping education manual is intended to improve your knowledge of North Dakota's Predators and furbearing animals and the basics on how to trap them. In this manual we hope we can provide you with enough trapping techniques to encourage conscientious trapping and good sound fur management. This manual was written for the beginning or inexperienced trapper, who is sincerely interested in trapping but lacks any direct information on how to do it. We will explain the habits of various predators and furbearing animals of North Dakota and some methods on trapping them. This manual will include classroom sessions with the use of proper trapping equipment and in the field demonstrations from qualified instructors. Above all you will learn by doing various sets by yourself. The purpose of this manual is to get you started in this reaming process and get you on the right track. ... [Read More]
Natural Areas of North Dakota
The natural areas included in this guide have special qualities found only on undeveloped land. These qualities represent glimpses through a window in time on a portion of North Dakota's presettlement landscape a "living history." They also signify diverse arrays of native plants and wildlife that belong together in finely-tuned natural communities, places of inherent beauty and interest, outdoor classrooms for teaching life sciences and earth sciences, outdoor laboratories, and benchmarks against which to gauge landscape changes. ... [Read More]
Region 8 News Release - EPA and Montana DEQ announce new proposed cleanup plan for the Milltown Reservoir Sediments Superfund Site in Montana
The Record of Decision (ROD) for the Milltown Reservoir is expected this fall and the necessary planning, design, and site preparation would begin immediately thereafter. Infrastructure construction would occur in 2005 with dam removal planned for 2006. Removal of the 2.6 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment in the Reservoir would occur in 2006 and 2007. Channel stabilization and revegetation (restoration) activities would occur 2007-2008. A community-based Superfund redevelopment group is currently looking at options for future land use, building on the remediation and restoration efforts. ... [Read More]
Organ Donation > Organ Procurement Organizations
Intermountain Donor Services (Lincoln, Sweetwater, Uinita Counties) ... Washington Regional Transplant Consortium (Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's counties) ... Intermountain Donor Services (Southern Idaho) ... [Read More]
North Dakota Birding Hotline
Mark Gonzalez has completed a pair of Breeding Bird Surveys recently. Highlights from the Solen BBS in northern Sioux and southern Morton counties on July 1 included DICKCISSELS at eight separate stops, 150 LARK BUNTINGS, three RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS in two stops including one in the town of Solvn, at least 125 UPLAND SANDPIPERS in 30 stops, three LOGGERHEAD SHRIKES and a female and a first-summer male BLUE GROSBEAK, state firsts for Mark. Back on June 24, he did the Golva BBS. Highlights there included DICKCISSEL, BAIRD’S SPARROWS at two separate stops, two MARBLED GODWITS, BURROWING OWLS at two stops, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, three LONG-BILLED CURLEWS at two stops, more than 250 LARK BUNTINGS, and a SPRAGUE’S PIPIT in the last 10 seconds at the final stop. Mark also talked to a visiting birder from Indiana, who took photos of a first-summer SURF SCOTER east of Highway 83 and north of Moffit Butte at Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge. For more information on those sightings, call Mark a ... [Read More]
North Dakota Partners: Bowman and Hettinger Champion Community
Thetours are guided trips to fossil sites in southwestern North Dakota. The trips leave from the Pioneer Trails Regional Museumin Bowman at 8:00-8:30amand return between 4:00-5:00pm . The tours consist of traveling to the site to observe and dig fossils. Admission is Tour prices are Adults - $75.00, Students (ages 12-18) -45.00, Children (ages 6-11) - $25.00, Family - $200.00. Open for tours are Tuesday - Saturday 8am - 4 pm . Located at 12First Ave NE , Bowman , ND 58623 .For more information contact Clara Bliss, Pioneer Trails Regional Museumat 701-523-3600 or 701-523-3625 or go to ... [Read More]
LCCP Links
The following organizations provide a range of spatial data including land cover data. If you wish to list your organization, please contact: lcac@usgs.gov . ... Environmental Protection Agency - Earliest National Land Use/Land Cover Dataset (by 1:250K map quads in Arc/Info export format) ... China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station ... [Read More]
Population and Land Area for 1990 Census Tracts
The documents providing information on the population, land area, and poverty data for the 1990 census tracts in each state are in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF) and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 for viewing. The reader is available free from the Adobe web site. ... The Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program uses data from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing. The documents on this site contain the same data as found in the Bureau of the Census CPH-3 series of publications from the ... [Read More]
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