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The Western Great Lakes forests is a terrestrial ecoregion as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. It is within the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome of North America . It is found in northern areas of the United States' states of Michigan , Wisconsin and Minnesota , and in southern areas of the Canadian province of Manitoba and ...
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water; they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).
Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...
The Old Copper Complex of the Western Great Lakes is the best known, and can be dated as far back as 9,500 years ago. [4] [1] Great Lakes natives of the Archaic period located 99% pure copper near Lake Superior, in veins touching the surface and in nuggets from gravel beds.
Western Great Lakes forests: Michigan: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Western Great Lakes forests: Minnesota: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Western Great Lakes forests: Wisconsin: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Willamette Valley forests: Oregon: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and mixed ...
The Potawatomi (/ ˌ p ɒ t ə ˈ w ɒ t ə m i / ⓘ [1] [2]), also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are an Indigenous North American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian family.
Niagara Escarpment (in red) Rattlesnake Point near Milton, Ontario The Niagara River has carved the Niagara Gorge through the Niagara Escarpment over thousands of years. The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States that starts from the south shore of Lake Ontario westward, circumscribes the top of the Great Lakes Basin running from New York through ...
The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region. Greystone Books. Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (2006). "Great Lakes Sensitivity to Climatic Forcing: Hydrological Models". National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Archived from the original on August 8, 2010. Holdon, Thom (July–August 1977).