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List Of Nature Centers In The United States
The following is a list of nature centers and environmental education centers in the United States. Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming See also * List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States * List of science museums in the United States * List of natural history museums * List of nature centers in Canada * Nature center for nature centers in other countries * List of zoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MK Nature Center
MK or mk may refer to: In arts, entertainment and media Fictional characters * Moon Knight, a Marvel Comics superhero * M.K., an '' ''Into the Badlands'' (TV series) character * Mary Katherine "M.K." Bomba, the protagonist in ''Epic'' (2013 film) Video games * '' Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome'', a tactical role-playing game * ''Mario Kart'', a series of racing video games developed and published by Nintendo featuring characters from the ''Mario'' franchise * ''Mortal Kombat'', a series of fighting video games developed and published by Midway Games, and later Warner Bros Other media * MK (channel), a defunct, South African, Afrikaans-language music television channel * Moskovskij Komsomolets, a Russian newspaper In business and finance * Markup (business), a term for the difference between the cost of a good or service and its selling price * Mark (designation), a designation used to identify versions of a product or item, e.g. Mk. II * Finnish markka (symbol: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish (french: Paroisse de Bâton Rouge Est) is the most populous parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2010 U.S. census, its population was 440,171, and 456,781 at the 2020 census. The parish seat is Baton Rouge, Louisiana's state capital. East Baton Rouge Parish is located within the Greater Baton Rouge area. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of , of which (3.2%) are covered by water. Bodies of water * Amite River * Bayou Manchac * Comite River * Mississippi River * Thompson Creek Major highways * Interstate 10 * Interstate 12 * Interstate 110 * U.S. Highway 61 * U.S. Highway 190 Adjacent parishes * East Feliciana Parish (north) * West Feliciana Parish (northwest) * West Baton Rouge Parish (west) * Iberville Parish (south) * Ascension Parish (southeast) * Livingston Parish (east) * St. Helena Parish (northeast) Communities Cities * Baker * Baton Rouge (parish seat and largest m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the List of capitals in the United States, capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the county seat, parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana's most populous List of parishes in Louisiana, parish—the equivalent of counties in other U.S. states. Since 2020, it has been the List of United States cities by population, 99th-most-populous city in the United States and the List of municipalities in Louisiana, second-largest city in Louisiana, after New Orleans; Baton Rouge is the List of capitals in the United States, 18th-most-populous state capital. According to the 2020 United States census, the city-proper had a population of 227,470; its consolidated population was 456,781 in 2020. The city is the center of the Baton Rouge metropolitan area, Greater Baton Rouge area—Louisiana's second-largest metropolitan area—with a population of 870,569 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center
Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center is a 103-acre nature conservation park administered by the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (also known as "BREC"), and located at 10503 N. Oak Hills Parkway, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70810. It is open to the public Tuesday - Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. (except for some holidays) for a nominal fee. The facility was opened as BREC's first nature conservation based park on 17 May 1997. Facilities, programs, and nature preserve The main exhibit building is a 9500-square-foot structure containing both live animal exhibits and photographic displays of the park's flora and fauna, as well as ecology and art exhibits. It houses the largest public display of vintage Louisiana duck decoys, donated by the late Charles W. Frank, Jr. The education building (newly renovated in 2014) was added to the facility to serve as a separate space for educational programs. There are programs and special ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Ouachita Parish (French: ''Paroisse d'Ouachita'') is located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 160,368. The parish seat is Monroe. The parish was formed in 1807. Ouachita Parish is part of the Monroe, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located here is Watson Brake, the oldest indigenous earthwork mound complex in North America. It was built around 3500 BCE, making it older than the Ancient Egyptian pyramids or Britain's Stonehenge. It is on privately owned land and not available for public viewing. History Prehistory Ouachita Parish was the home to many succeeding Native American groups in the thousands of years before Europeans began to settle here. Peoples of the Marksville culture, Troyville culture, Coles Creek culture and Plaquemine culture built villages and earthwork mound sites throughout the area. Notable examples include the Filhiol Mound Site, located on a natural levee of the Ouachita River. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe (historically french: Poste-du-Ouachita) is the list of municipalities in Louisiana#List of Municipalities, eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and parish seat of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, Ouachita Parish. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census-tabulated population of 47,702, it is the principal city of the Monroe, Louisiana metropolitan area, Monroe metropolitan statistical area, the second-largest metropolitan area in North Louisiana. Etymology As List of governors of Louisiana, governor of Louisiana, Esteban Rodríguez Miró had ''Fort Miro'' built in 1791. Fort Miro changed its name to Monroe to commemorate the first arrival of the steamboat ''James Monroe'' in the spring of 1820. The ship's arrival was the single event, in the minds of local residents, that transformed the outpost into a town. Credit for the name is indirectly given to James Monroe of Virginia (U.S. state), Virginia, the fifth President of the United States, for whom the ship w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge is one of five refuges managed in the North Louisiana Refuge Complex and one of 545 refuges in the National Wildlife Refuge System. It was established in 1997 through a unique partnership with the city of Monroe, Louisiana. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a free 99-year lease to manage the city-owned lake. Wildlife and habitat Black Bayou Lake is studded with cypress and tupelo trees, and surrounded by swamps that graduate into bottomland hardwoods and then into upland mixed pine/hardwoods. Cherrybark oak, cedar elm, ash, hickories and willow oak dominate the lower areas while shortleaf pine, loblolly pine, mockernut hickory and post oak dominate the upland sites. Common wildlife seen include alligators, wood ducks, bird-voiced treefrogs, banded water snakes, red-eared sliders, green herons, coyotes, skunks, and white-tailed deer. The refuge supports an excellent fisheries resource and provides valuable habitat for migratory water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audubon Nature Institute
The Audubon Nature Institute is a family of museums and parks dedicated to nature and based in New Orleans, Louisiana. It consists of the Audubon Zoo, Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, Audubon Park, Woldenberg Riverfront Park, Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center, Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species (ACRES), Audubon Wilderness Park, and Audubon Coastal Wildlife Network (CWN). History 1800s (Decade) The Audubon family of nature sites and facilities began with Audubon Park – once home to Native Americans – and later, to New Orleans' first mayor, Étienne de Boré. He founded the nation's first commercial sugar plantation here, when New Orleans was still part of Spanish colonial Louisiana; and developed its first granulated sugar through a process invented by Norbert Rillieux, a local free man of color. The land did not fall into public hands until 1850, when a philanthropist willed it to the city. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orleans Parish, Louisiana
New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans . ; french: La Nouvelle-Orléans , es, Nueva Orleans) is a consolidated city-parish located along the in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of . With a population of 383,997 according to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans
New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans Merriam-Webster. ; french: La Nouvelle-Orléans , es, Nueva Orleans) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 according to the 2020 U.S. census, it is the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Lafayette Parish (french: Paroisse de Lafayette) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the parish had a population of 241,753, up from 221,578 at the 2010 United States census. The parish seat is the city of Lafayette. The parish was founded in 1823. Since 1992, Lafayette City and Lafayette Parish have operated as a consolidated government. Etymology The city and parish of Lafayette were named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French general who took part in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and financially aided it. Geography Lafayette Parish is a part of the region of Acadiana in southern Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of , of which is land and (0.2%) is water. It is the fifth-smallest parish in Louisiana by land area and third-smallest by total area. Major highways * Interstate 10 * Interstate 49 * U.S. Highway 90 * U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
