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Level III ecoregion boundary PRINCIPAL AUTHORS: Alan J. Woods (Oregon State University), James M. Omernik (U.S. Geological REVIEWERS: George A. Bukenhofer (U.S. Forest Service), Richard A. Marston (Boone Pickens School Survey), Daniel R. Butler (Oklahoma Conservation Commission–Water Quality Division), Jimmy G. of Geology, Oklahoma State University), David V. Peck (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), and Level IV ecoregion boundary Ford (U.S. Department of Agriculture–Natural Resources Conservation Service), James E. Henley (U.S. Dale Splinter (Boone Pickens School of Geology, Oklahoma State University). Department of Agriculture–Natural Resources Conservation Service), Bruce W. Hoagland (Oklahoma State boundary Biological Survey), Derek S. Arndt (Oklahoma Climatological Survey), and Brian C. Moran (Indus CITING THIS POSTER: Woods, A.J., Omernik, J.M., Butler, D.R., Ford, J.G., Henley, J.E., Hoagland, Corporation). B.W., Arndt, D.S., and Moran, B.C., 2005, Ecoregions of Oklahoma (color poster with map, descriptive County boundary text, summary tables, and photographs): Reston, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey (map scale COLLABORATORS AND CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Atkinson (Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, 1:1,250,000). SCALE 1:3 125 000 Food, and Forestry), Sandy A. Bryce (Dynamac Corporation), Shannen S. Chapman (Dynamac Corporation), Philip A. Crocker (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Glenn E. Griffith (Dynamac This project was supported in part by funds from USEPA Region 6, Water Quality Cooperative 15 0 15 30 mi Corporation), Chris Hise (The Nature Conservancy), Charlie Howell (U.S. Environmental Protection Agreement under the provisions of Section 104(b) (3) of the Clean Water Act to the Oklahoma Water Agency), Ron Jarman (Apex Environmental, Inc.), Thomas R. Loveland (U.S. Geological Survey), Resources Board (through the Office of the Secretary of Environment, State of Oklahoma). Assistance 30 0 30 60 km Kenneth V. Luza (Oklahoma Geological Survey), Phillip Moershel (Oklahoma Water Resources Board), from the private sector is acknowledged in the form of Ron Jarman, Ph.D., on loan from Apex Mark E. Moseley (U.S. Department of Agriculture–Natural Resources Conservation Service), Randy Environmental, Inc. Albers Equal Area Projection Parham (Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality), and Brooks Tramell (Oklahoma ° ° Standard Parallels 34 30' N and 36 00' N Conservation Commission–Water Quality Division). Electronic versions of ecoregion maps and posters as well as other ecoregion resources are available at http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/ecoregions.htm