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| Souvenir Sheet. Great Plains Prairie (10 stamps). |
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Stamp: Bisons, black-tailed prairie dogs, wild alfalfa
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 34 (c)
Date of issue: 2001 Apr. 19
Depiction: Bisons, black-tailed prairie dogs, wild alfalfa; 3rd stamp in the sheet
Colour: multicolored
Paper: Phosphor Tagged, Block
Designer: Ethel Kessler
Artist: John D. Dawson
Perforation: serpentine die cut 10
Printing process: lithographed
Gum type: self-adhesive
Size of a stamp (mm): 39,62×31,12
Size of a sheet (mm): 231,78×169,86
Sheet composition: 10 stamps
Printing run: 8 960 000
Stamp issuing authority: United States Postal Service (USPS)
Printer: Ashton-Potter (USA) Ltd. |
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First day city was Lincoln, Nebraska 68501. |
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The rear of sheet has a brief descriptive text of the stamp images, accompanied with a graphic outline of the stamp images. The flora and fauna depicted are labelled and identified. |
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Animals and plants depicted on the Souvenir Sheet are: |
- Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea purpurea);
- Canada goose (Branta canadensis);
- Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana);
- Badger (Taxidea taxus);
- Buffalo Grass (Buchloe dactyloides);
- Western harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex occidentalis);
- Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia);
- Eastern Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma douglasii brevirostre);
- Plains Pocket Gopher (Geomys bursarius);
- Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus);
- Bison (Bison bison);
- Wild Alfalfa (Psoralea tenuiflora);
- Black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus);
- Swainson’s Hawk (Buteo swainsoni);
- Plains Spadefoot Toad (Spea bombifrons);
- Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis viridis);
- Painted Lady Batterfly (Vanessa cardui);
- Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera);
- Prairie Wild Rose (Rosa arkansasa);
- Dung Beetle (Canthon pilularius);
- Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium);
- Ord's Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ordii);
- Two-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus);
- Camel Cricket (Ceuthophilus palldius);
- Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta).
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| Great Plains Prairie is third Souvenir Sheet in a series of Nature of America that the United States Postal Service has been releasing annually since 1999 till 2010 starting with the Sonoran Desert Sheet and ending with the Hawaiin Rain Forest Sheet.
Inscription on the rear of sheet:
The varied tapestry of the tallgrass, mixed-grass, and short-grass prairies reaches from the eastern woodlands and oak savannas to the foothills of the Rockies. Grasses and wildflowers make good use of limited rainfall, and fire helps sustain the ecosystem. Prairies provide habitats for many animals, including the pronghorn - North Americas fastest land animal - and the prairie dog, one of many burrowing animals that live on the prairies.
Explorers were impressed by the immensity of the central and western grasslands, the region that came to be known as the Great Plains. Settlers' steel plows altered the landscape and transformed life on the prairies.
Native prairie is rare today; remaining patches exist because of careful management and diligent preservation efforts. But the defining characteristics of the prairies live on; for instance, cattle, rather than bison, are now the dominant grazing animals of the plains. |
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| Themes: bison (Bison bison), fauna, flora |
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