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    The Niobrara Valley Preserve is a 56,000 acre (226 km sq.) conservation area in Brown and Keya Paha counties of Nebraska owned by The Nature Conservancy...
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    Panhandle covers 45,849 acres (18,554 ha). The Nature conservancy's Niobrara Valley Preserve in Cherry, Brown, and Keya Paha counties covers 60,000 acres (202 km2)...
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  • Resources 30 Nachusa Grasslands Illinois The Nature Conservancy 130 Niobrara Valley Preserve Nebraska The Nature Conservancy Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge...
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    Niobrara River runs along the southeast side of Valentine and the portion east of town is the start of the Niobrara Valley Preserve, which preserves thousands...
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  • Fort Niobrara (1880–1906) was a military post located in north central Nebraska. Constructed along the Niobrara River after the Great Sioux War of 1876...
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    near Harrison, Nebraska. The main features of the monument are a valley of the Niobrara River and the fossils found on Carnegie Hill and University Hill...
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  • Become a National Park?". Scientific American. Retrieved June 14, 2024. "Niobrara Scenic River Designation Act of 1991" (PDF). Scientific American. Retrieved...
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    List of the United States National Park System official units (category National preserves of the United States)
    National Park and Preserve are counted as two units, since the same name applies to a national park and an adjacent national preserve. Yet Jean Lafitte...
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    exceptionally well-preserved fossils of marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs found in the uppermost member of the Niobrara Chalk, the Smoky...
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    bend to the southeast as it winds through the Great Plains, receiving the Niobrara River and many smaller tributaries from the southwest. It then proceeds...
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    Recreation Area Miller Creek Recreation Area Niobrara State Park (NE GPC) Niobrara Recreation Area (Village of Niobrara) Calumet Bluff Trail & Overlook (USACE)...
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    Danny (1989). Two Wheels to Adventure: Alaska to Argentina by Motorcycle. Niobrara, Nebraska: Bigfoot Publishing Company. p. 263. Liska 1989, p. 685 Kinard...
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    40-mile-long (64 km) Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Grand Teton National Park is 10 miles (16 km) south...
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    Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge (45,818 acres [18,542 ha]) Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge (19,131 acres [7,742 ha]) John and Louise Seier...
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    that begins on the Wyoming–Nebraska state line west of Harrison near the Niobrara River and runs to the Nebraska–Iowa state line in South Sioux City. Throughout...
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    List of areas in the United States National Park System (category National preserves of the United States)
    National Park and Preserve is counted as two units, since the same name applies to a national park and an adjacent national preserve. Yet Jean Lafitte...
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  • Kansas, again in the fossil record of the Niobrara Formation. The holotype specimen consists of a well-preserved skull cataloged as FHSM VP-2295, which was...
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    jarosite, which are found in outcrops of the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Formation within Gove County, Kansas. They are typically associated with...
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    ("Daybreak") circulated from 1878 by the Protestant Episcopal Church in Niobrara Mission, Nebraska until its move to Mission, South Dakota in 1908 continuing...
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  • near-complete skeleton of a small herbivorous dinosaur along Doegie Creek in Niobrara County, Wyoming, in rocks of the Lance Formation. The skeleton was found...
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  • prairie. Bigelow Cemetery Preserve, Ohio Brown School Road Cemetery, St. Joseph, Michigan Brownlee Prairie Cemetery Nature Preserve, Illinois Calvary Catholic...
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    is about 3,138 feet (956m) thick at the type locality. It overlies the Niobrara division and underlies the Fox Hills beds. It was named for an occurrence...
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    Laramie and the North Platte Rivers. They joined in the upper Platte River Valley in the eastern part of the present-day US state of Wyoming. The fort was...
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    Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. In 1857, while exploring the Niobrara River valley in Nebraska, Leidy found the vertebrae of an extinct Canis species...
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    Plains by the late 17th century from earlier locations in the Ohio River Valley. The Omaha speak a Siouan language of the Dhegihan branch, which is very...
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    Limestone, and the thick Niobrara Chalk. Stratigraphically the Dakota is overlain by the Greenhorn and that by the Niobrara. The Dakota outcrops in the...
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    Greenhorn limestone, which contains many shark teeth fossils; and the Niobrara Formation, which is composed mainly of chalk. These outer ridges are called...
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    U.S. military. The Sioux victory in the war led to their temporarily preserving their control of the Powder River country. The war ended with the Treaty...
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    Elias National Park and Preserve, Gates Of The Arctic National Park and Preserve, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, Katmai...
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    that should be available for further research. He also was encouraged to preserve it for others to see and experience it as well. In 1873, Congress authorized...
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