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The Arizona white oak provides cover for such animals like deer, turkeys, javelinas, desert sheep, songbirds, and quail. The white tailed deer is also known to utilize it for cover. For white-tailed and mule deer, the Arizona white oak is highly palatable as well. The only species known to consume the acorns in quantity is the thick-billed ...
Generally speaking, the annual minimum temperature in Phoenix is in the mid-to-low 30s. It rarely drops to 32 °F (0 °C) or below, having done so in only nine of the years between 1991 and 2020 on a total of seventeen days. [6] However, peripheral portions of the Phoenix metropolitan area frequently see frost in the winter. The earliest freeze ...
This is a landscape of steep mountains and high stony plateaus with rocky outcrops from the Kaibab Plateau in northern Arizona south to the Mogollon Plateau, extending eastwards into southwestern New Mexico and into the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. Elevations range from 1,370 to 3,000 meters (4,490 to 9,840 ft), with some peaks higher than ...
A hot desert climate tends to have two seasons: a long, hot summer and a shorter, mild winter. Phoenix has four months (June-September) when the historical average high temperature is 100 degrees ...
Drought reduces the ability of trees to mount a defense against attacks from pests such as bark beetles, which have infested 100,000 acres in Arizona. Temperature controls the life cycle and winter mortality rates of many pests. With higher winter temperatures, some pests can persist year-round, and new pests and diseases may become established ...
Denny Schrock . Buckeye. Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) is usually a small to medium-size tree (20-40 feet tall) with compound leaves that have five oval-shaped leaflets.Closely related is the ...
Sandhill cranes wintering in southern Arizona are the "single best wildlife viewing experience" in the state, one official said. Thousands of Sandhill cranes will migrate to Arizona this winter ...
2014 Anthem Christmas tree. The tree is harvested annually near McCloud, in the Shasta–Trinity National Forest in northern California, from a family-run tree farm.These pine trees do not naturally have live branches on the bottom portion due to the lack of sunlight reaching the ground, therefore the tree does not have the triangular shape of a traditional Christmas tree.