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Incomplete and ever-expanding List of "Last Great Places" Subj: Last Great Places list Date: 3/19/02 From: mlipford@tnc.org (Michael Lipford) CC: mhorak@tnc.org ...list of last great places developed by The Nature Conservancy a couple of years ago. The list is dated but will give you some sense of our last great places focus. Many sites have been identified since through our ecoregional planning process as we move toward our goal of developing a blueprint for conservation. Sites like Warm Springs Mountain, a recent 9000 acre purchase by Virginia TNC is not on that list, for example, and was identified through our ecoregional planning in the Central Appalachain Ecoregion. So the list of last great places is dynamic, not static. I hope this meets the needs of your request. Best, Michael Lipford Note: Below is "the list." It totals to over 247 "LGPs" and some of these are huge areas, such as the Pocono Mountains and the Great Salt Lake. Although the US Fish & Wildlife Service's 'proposed federal wildlife refuge' for my area has been publically withdrawn, please note that the Big Darby area of Ohio has NOT been taken off this Nature Conservancy list! From the Nature Conservancy: Author, Julian Majot Title: THE CAMPAIGN FOR CONSERVATION The following is a list of priority sites identified through The Campaign for Conservation. This list is not comprehensive: The Conservancy's scientific approach to site selection continues to reveal hundreds of priority landscapes worldwide. ~~~Campaign Sites: United States~~~ Alabama Bibb County Glades Cahaba River Grand Bay Savanna (also MS) Paint Rock River Alaska Admiralty Island Kachemak Bay Arizona Lower San Pedro River Verde River White Mountains Arkansas Big Woods California Cosumnes River/Eastern San Diego Lassen Foothills Merced Grassland Mount Hamilton Sacramento River Colorado Aiken Canyon Arikaree River Arkansas River Valley Chico Basin Lower Purgatorie Roan Plateau San Luis Valley Western High Plains Connecticut Berkshires and Taconic Valleys (also MA) Pachaug Forest Tidelands of the Connecticut Rivers Traprock Ridges Delaware Delaware Bayshores (also NJ) Nanticoke River (also MD) Florida Apalachicola River Basin Florida Keys Lake Wales Ridge St. Mary's River (also GA) Upper Kissimmee Valley Georgia Altamaha River Chatahoochie River Conasauga River Cumberland Island Longleaf Pine (also FL) Hawaii Hawaiian Forest Idaho Owyhee Canyonlands/45 Ranch Upper Henry's Fork River Vanishing Rivers Illinois The Illinois River Valley Emiquon Fox River Mackinaw River Spunky Bottoms Indiana The Blue River Kankakee Sands Iowa Little Sioux River Loess Hills Lower Cedar River Kansas Cheyenne Bottoms Flint Hills Smoky Valley Ranch Sunset Prairies Kentucky Green River Biosphere (United Nations designation) Louisiana Black Bayou Cat Island Lafitte Woods/Maritime Island Persimmon Gully Maine Cobscook BayMachias RiverMerrymeeting Bay Mount Agamenticus Mt. Washington Valley/Saco River (also NH) St. John River Project Maryland Crescent Preserve Nanticoke River (also DE) Nassawango Creek Sideling Hill Creek Massachusetts Berkshires and Taconic Valleys (also CT) Plymouth Pinelands Sandplains of the Massachusetts Islands Michigan Ives Road Fen Michigan's Upper Peninsula Minnesota Agassiz Beach Ridges Lake Superior Highlands Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Mississippi Grand Bay Savannah (also AL) Pascagoula River Missouri Dunn Ranch/Pawnee Prairie Lower Ozarks Marmaton River Bottoms Osage Plains/Central Tallgrass Wah-Kon-Tah Prairie Montana Centennial Valley Montana Glaciated Plains Rocky Mountain Front Nebraska Little Salt Fork Marsh Middle Niobrara River Valley Pine Escarpment Platte River Rainwater Basin Rulo Bluffs Sandhills Lakes and Rivers Sandsage Prairie Nevada Moapa Valley Stillwater Marsh/Pyramid Lake New Hampshire Great Bay Estuary Mt. Washington Valley/Saco River (also ME) Ossippee Pine Barrens New Jersey Delaware Bayshores (also DE) New Jersey Pine Barrens New Jersey Skylands Area New Mexico Gila River Mimbres River Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge New York Adirondacks Alvar Landscapes Atlantic Beaches and Bays (Long Island) Eastern Shore of Lake Ontario French Creek Neversink River Peconic (Eastern Long Island) Shawangunk Mountains Southern Lake Champlain (also VT) Tug Hill Plateau North Carolina Amphilobite Mountains (Long Hope Valley) Blue Ridge/Jocassee Gorges (also SC) Hickorynut Gorge Lower Cape Fear River Roanoke River & Albermarle Sandhills Longleaf Pine South Mountains Southeast Brunswick Upper Tar River North Dakota Cheyenne Delta Missouri Couteau/Sheridan Prairie Ohio Big Darby Edge of Appalachia Northeast Ohio Project Oak Openings Oklahoma J. T. Nickel Family Nature and Wildlife Preserve Cucumber Creek Oregon Agate Desert-Rogue River Foothills Sycan Marsh Upper Klamath Basin Wetlands Williamson River Delta Pennsylvania Poconos West Branch Wilderness Rhode Island Block Island Pawcatuck Landscape Quicksand Pond/Goosewing South Carolina A.C.E. Basin Blue Ridge/Jocassee Gorges (also NC) Carolina Sandhills Sewee to Santee South Lowcountry Southern Blue Ridge Turkey Creek Winyah Bay Bioreserve (United Nations designation) South Dakota Cascade Creek/Cheyenne River Canyon Crystal Springs Prairie Northern Hills Spring Creek (also WY) Tennessee Clinch Valley (also VA) Cumberland Plateau Landscape Duck River Hatchie River Shady Valley Texas Chihauhau Woods Clymer Meadow Davis Mountains East Texas Pineywoods Edwards Aquifer Laguna Madre (also MX) Lower Rio Grande Valley Tallgrass Coastal Prairie West Galveston Project Utah Bar J Ranch Macrosite Dugout Ranch Great Salt Lake Vermont Southern Lake Champlain (also NY) Virginia Chowan Basin Clinch Valley (also TN) Green Sea Wetlands N. Landing River, NW River Piney Grove, Zuni Barrens Virginia Coast Reserve Washington Columbia River Shrub Steppe Ellsworth Creek Greater Skagit Delta Moses/Beezley Wisconsin Mukwango River Project/Lulu Lake West Virginia Canaan Valley/Dolly Sods Cheat Mountain/Shavers Fork Smoke Hole/North Fork Mountain Wyoming Big Horn Mountains Cheyenne River Canyons Greater Yellowstone Northern Hills Spring Creeks (also SD) Malpai Borderlands Project - AZ/NM border Northeast Woods Project - Northern New England, mostly Maine Palmyra - The Pacific Ocean - an atoll in US territory THE CAMPAIGN FOR CONSERVATION ~~~International Campaign Sites~~~ Asia/Pacific Region Josephstaal, Papua New Guinea Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea Komodo National Park, Indonesia Lore Lindu National Park, Indonesia Republic of Palau Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia Southern Choiseul/Northern Isabel, Solomon Islands Yunnan Great Rivers, China Canada Dorechester Cape, Canada Fishing Branch River, Canada Manitoulin Island, Ontario Tallgrass Prairie, Manitoba, Canada Latin America/Caribbean Region Andean/Southern Cone Canaima National Park, Venezuela Condor Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador Defensores de Chaco, Paraguay Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, Bolivia Galapagos Marine Reserve, Ecuador Nevados de Chillan, Chile Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia Pacaya-Samiria, Peru Paracas National Reserve, Peru Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia Tariquia National Park, Bolivia Caribbean Blue Mountain/John Crow Corridor, Jamaica Exumas Land and Sea Parks, Bahamas Madre de las Aguas, Dominican Republic Magens Bay, Virgin Islands Morne Trois Pitons National Park, Dominica Parque del Este, Dominican Republic St. Croix Marine Bioreserve (United Nations designation), Virgin Islands Brazil Caatinga, Brazil Cerrado, Brazil Guaraquecaba/Atlantic Forest, Brazil Pantanal, Brazil Serra do Divisor, Brazil Central America Bosawas Natural Resources, Nicaragua Cerro San Gil Ecological Reserve, Guatemala Darien Bioreserve (United Nations designation), Panama Honduran Mosquitia (Rio Platano), Honduras Maya Forest, Central America/Belize/Mexico Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica Sierra de las Minas/ Bocas del Polochic, Guatemala Talamanca Corridor, Costa Rica Mexico Balsas Dry Forest, Mexico Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve, Mexico El Triunfo - La Encrucijada, Mexico Great Maya Reef, Mexico Laguna Madre (also TX) Sea of Cortez, Mexico Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico Sierra de las Ajos, Mexico |