$400K BLM grant to Chicago Botanic Garden. (News & Events).The U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM BLM n abbr (US) (= Bureau of Land Management) → les domaines ) has awarded $400,000 to the Department of Conservation Science and the Institute for Plant Conservation Biology conservation biology n. The branch of biology that deals with the effects of humans on the environment and with the conservation of biological diversity. , housed at the Chicago Botanic Garden The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385 acre (1.56 km²) botanical garden in Glencoe, Illinois. It is located within the Cook County Forest Preserve District, a belt of more than 68,000 acres (275 km²) of open space that surrounds the city of Chicago, Illinois. , for use in conservation efforts. Two separate grants will be used for (1) developing and implementing a conservation internship program to assist BLM with promoting conservation of species-at-risk and managing their habitat on public lands, and (2) investigating genetics of threatened plant species in the Great Basin Great Basin, semiarid, N section of the Basin and Range province, the intermontane plateau region of W United States and N Mexico. Lying mostly in Nevada and extending into California, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah, it is bordered by the Sierra Nevada on the west, the states of Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada. |
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