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There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations.
There are situations where the censorship of certain sites was subsequently removed. For example, when Google Maps and Google Earth were launched, images of the White House and United States Capitol were blurred out; however, these sites are now uncensored. [3]
Photo by Ansel Adams, c.1941 Mustangs run across a Sagebrush steppe, Tule Valley, Utah View of Indian Wells Valley, part of the Mojave (high) desert near Ridgecrest, California Guadalupe Mountains in Texas 2006. This list of North American deserts identifies areas of the continent that receive less than 10 in (250 mm) annual precipitation.
Drylands cover 41.3% of the Earth's land surface, including 15% of Latin America, 66% of Africa, 40% of Asia, and 24% of Europe. There is a significantly greater proportion of drylands in developing countries (72%), and the proportion increases with aridity : almost 100% of all hyper-arid lands are in the developing world.
Desertification is a gradual process of increased soil aridity.Desertification has been defined in the text of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as "land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities."
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State maps of US Level III Ecoregions (Select a state. Then select "Level III Ecoregions") This page was last edited on 31 January 2025, at 17:46 (UTC). Text is ...
Dryland farming caused a large dust storm in parts of Eastern Washington on October 4, 2009. Courtesy: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response [1]. Dryland farming has evolved as a set of techniques and management practices to adapt to limited availability of water, as in the Western US and other regions affected by climate change for crops such as tomato and maize.