The Golden Buckeye Program, which takes its name from the tree species Aesculus glabra, is a free service of what state?
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Golden Buckeye The Golden Buckeye program is a free service of the Ohio Department of Aging. Ohio citizens age 60 and over automatically qualify for membership in the program and receive a Golden Buckeye card in the mail. Adults age 18 to 59 years old with disabilities as defined by Social Security also qualify for the card and can apply for one at most Ohio senior centers and public libraries. This well-known program has been in place since 1976 and entitles cardholders to discounts on purchases at participating Ohio merchants. The current Golden Buckeye card includes the Ohio's Best Rx prescription drug discount program on its back side.
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Aesculus glabra The tree species Aesculus glabra is commonly known as Ohio buckeye, American buckeye, or fetid buckeye. Glabra is one of 13–19 species of Aesculus also called horse chestnuts.
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Buckeye Fork Buckeye Fork is a stream in the U.S. state of Ohio.
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Buffalo National River The Buffalo River, located in northern Arkansas, was the first National River to be designated in the United States. The Buffalo River is 153 mi long. The lower 135 mi flow within the boundaries of an area managed by the National Park Service, where the stream is designated the Buffalo National River. The river flows through Newton, Searcy, Marion, and Baxter Counties, from west to east. The river originates in the highest part of Boston Mountains of the Ozarks, flows out onto the Springfield Plateau near the historic community of Erbie, and finally crosses a portion of the Salem Plateau just before joining the White River. The Park is home to the state's only elk herd. The upper section of the river in the Ozark National Forest is managed by the U.S. Forest Service and is designated as a National Scenic River and a National Wild River; that section is not part of the area managed as a park by the Park Service, but is managed as a part of the Ozark National Forest.
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Agriprocessors Agriprocessors was the corporate identity of a slaughterhouse and meat-packaging factory based in Postville, Iowa, best known as a facility for the glatt kosher processing of cattle, as well as chicken, turkey, duck, and lamb. Agriprocessors' meat and poultry products were marketed under the brand "Iowa Best Beef". Its kosher products were marketed under various labels, including "Aaron’s Best", "Shor Habor", "Supreme Kosher" and "Rubashkins".
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List of New Jersey wildlife management areas The state of New Jersey in the United States owns and administers over 354,000 acre of land designated as "Wildlife Management Areas" (abbreviated as "WMA") throughout the state. These areas are managed by the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, an agency in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. These protected areas are not part of the state's public parks and forests system, and while managed as fish and wildlife habitat with a focus on recreational fishing and hunting activities, these multi-use sites are also "prime locations for birding, wildlife viewing and photography, cross country skiing, hiking and mountain biking". According to state wildlife education specialist Paul Tarlowe, the wildlife management areas reflect the varied and diverse terrain across the state, including "extremely rugged terrain (Wildcat Ridge WMA) to level woods roads (along the South Branch of the Raritan River through Ken Lockwood Gorge WMA) to sandy tracts in the Pinelands (Greenwood Forest and Stafford Forge WMAs) to coastal marshes (Cape May Wetlands WMA)." As of July 2015, there are 121 areas throughout the state and new properties and additions to existing properties are continually being added.
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Key West Tropical Forest &amp; Botanical Garden The Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden is a frost-free arboretum and botanical garden containing a collection of trees, shrubs, and palms, including several "champion tree" specimens. It is located on Stock Island in the municipality of Key West, Florida, United States. It is open daily. There is a nominal fee for admission, with free admission for locals on the first Sunday of every month.
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Buckeye Local School District (Ashtabula County) The Buckeye Local School District (Ashtabula County) is a public school district in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States, based in Ashtabula, Ohio.
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State Fire Assistance State Fire Assistance is a State and Private Forestry program under which the United States Forest Service provides financial and technical assistance to states for grants and agreements to improve fire protection of non-federal lands.
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West Michigan West Michigan and Western Michigan are terms for an arbitrarily selected region in the U.S. state of Michigan in its Lower Peninsula. Generally, West Michigan refers to the Grand Rapids- Muskegon- Holland area, however there is no official definition for what constitutes "West Michigan."
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Appalachian Ohio Appalachian Ohio is a bioregion and political unit in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio, characterized by the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and Appalachian Plateau. The Appalachian Regional Commission defines the region as consisting of thirty-two counties. This region roughly overlaps with the Appalachian mixed-mesophytic forests, which begin in southeast Ohio and southwest Pennsylvania and continue to north Georgia and Alabama. The mixed-mesophytic forest is found only in Central and Southern Appalachia and eastern/central China. It is one of the most biodiverse temperate forests in the world.
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Chengwatana State Forest The Chengwatana State Forest is a state forest located in Pine and Chisago counties in Minnesota. Its name is derived from the Ojibwe: "Zhingwaadena" , meaning "white-pine town", after the nearby ghost town and township. Eastern White Pine was historically the dominant tree species in the surrounding forest prior to intensive logging at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Golden Spread Council The Golden Spread Council serves youth in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. Its service area includes all or part of 23 counties in Texas and three counties in Oklahoma. Through 2010, the council served approximately 5,300 youth members and 1,700 adult leaders.
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GNAT Programming Studio GNAT Programming Studio (GPS, formerly known as the GNAT Programming System) is a free multi-language integrated development environment (IDE) by AdaCore. GPS uses compilers from the GNU Compiler Collection, taking its name from GNAT, the GNU compiler for the Ada programming language.
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Tamarack Swamp Tamarack Swamp is a boreal (non-glacial) bog in Sproul State Forest, in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is named for the tamarack tree, which inhabits the wetland. Numerous other species of plants and animals also inhabit the wetland. The total area of the wetland is 4000 acres. The Tamarack Swamp Natural Area is located in the wetland.
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Golden trout The California golden trout, or simply the golden trout ("Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita"), is a subspecies of the rainbow trout native to California. The golden trout is native to Golden Trout Creek (tributary to the Kern River), Volcano Creek (tributary to Golden Trout Creek), and the South Fork Kern River. It is the state fish of California.
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Native Sons of the Golden West The Native Sons of the Golden West is a fraternal service organization founded in 1875, limited to native born Californians and dedicated to historic preservation, documentation of historic structures and places in the state, the placement of historic plaques and other charitable functions within California. In 1890 they placed the first historical marker in the state to honor the discovery of gold which gave rise to the state nickname "Golden State" and "Golden West." Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and former Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren were both past presidents of the NSGW.
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Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge The Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge is a federal national wildlife refuge located in Jasper County, Iowa, United States. The refuge, formerly known as Walnut Creek, is named after Congressman Neal Edward Smith, who championed its creation. It seeks to restore the tallgrass prairie and oak savanna ecosystems that once covered most of Iowa. It has a herd of approximately 75 buffalo (bison) and 25 elk.
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Carya glabra Carya glabra, the pignut hickory, is a common, but not abundant species of hickory in the oak-hickory forest association in the Eastern United States and Canada. Other common names are pignut, sweet pignut, coast pignut hickory, smoothbark hickory, swamp hickory, and broom hickory. The pear-shaped nut ripens in September and October and is an important part of the diet of many wild animals. The wood is used for a variety of products, including fuel for home heating.
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Genesee Valley Conservancy The Genesee Valley Conservancy (GVC) is a non-profit land trust based in Geneseo, New York, United States, that exists to protect land in the Genesee River watershed. Founded in 1990, GVC works ""to protect the habitat, open space, and farmland of the Genesee Valley region."" GVC has completed projects in Livingston, Erie, Monroe, Ontario, Wyoming. and Allegany counties. A full-time staff completes the daily operations of GVC, with assistance from part-time staff, interns, and volunteers. GVC is governed by a Board of Directors, and supported by members.
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Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy The Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the State of California. Through its Open Space Protection Program, it buys and keeps land in the Coachella Valley and in the surrounding mountains, both for the protection and conservation of its cultural and natural resources and for the use and enjoyment of the public. It was established by the California State Legislature in 1991.
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Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) is a federally funded bioenergy research program led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Michigan State University as a primary partner. Member institutions extend reach and participation and include Illinois State University, Texas A&M University, and other academic institutions, national laboratories, and industry partners, The mission of the GLBRC is to perform the basic research required to sustainably convert cellulosic biomass to ethanol and other advanced biofuels.