The total 42,200 specimens literally makes CSCN (our official herbarium symbol in the botanical community) the second largest herbarium in the state of Nebraska and the largest herbarium in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference schools. The long-term goal of the Herbarium Director within his expectancy of life-service to the College (including post-retirement from teaching) is to raise the size of the Herbarium to 50,000 specimens. The Herbarium is scheduled to be in the proposed Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center.