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The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. With 4.4 million visitors in 2023, it was the third most-visited museum in the United States. [6]
Resources for the Future (RFF) is an American nonprofit organization, founded in 1952, that conducts independent research into environmental, energy, and natural resource issues, primarily via economics and other social sciences. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., RFF performs research around the world.
The Geology of Washington, D.C., is broadly divisible into two regions. [1] The northwestern quadrant of the city lies mainly in the Appalachian Piedmont region, [ 1 ] marked by moderate to steep hills underlain by metamorphic rocks of Ordovician through Devonian age, similar to the adjacent Piedmont regions of Montgomery County, Maryland .
Sep. 11—Washington officials are beginning to develop a statewide recreation plan for public land managed by the state Department of Natural Resources. In a news release Monday, DNR announced it ...
Washington, D.C. as seen from space in 2020 Aerial view, 3D computer generated image of Washington, D.C. The topography of Washington, D.C. is highly similar to the physical geography of much of Maryland. The city has three significant natural flowing bodies of water: the Potomac River and two tributaries, the Anacostia River and Rock Creek.
Much of the 72,500 acres (293 km 2) Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. and 56,000 acres (230 km 2) Quantico Marine Base, Virginia [4] are undeveloped, and constitute the largest such areas within 30 miles (48 km) of either Baltimore or Washington. Neither is generally open to the public. Quantico is contiguous with Prince William Forest Park.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a United States–based 501(c)(3) non-profit international environmental advocacy group, with its headquarters in New York City and offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Bozeman, India, and Beijing. [1]
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