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The contemporary Red Desert watershed includes saline lakes and ponds that feature mud flats during wet years and dry lakes in droughts. Intermittent streams, dependent primarily upon snow melt but accelerated by summer thundershowers, cut arroyos throughout the basin. Such small earth moving events, repeated over the eons, combined with the ...
Urban wildlife is wildlife that can live or thrive in urban/suburban environments or around densely populated human settlements such as towns. Some urban wildlife, such as house mice , are synanthropic , ecologically associated with and even evolved to become entirely dependent on human habitats .
The Western Gulf coastal grasslands (Spanish: Pastizales costeros del Golfo Occidental) are a subtropical grassland ecoregion of the southern United States and northeastern Mexico. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is known in Louisiana as the "Cajun Prairie" , Texas as "Coastal Prairie," and as the Tamaulipan pastizal ( Spanish : Pastizal Tamaulipeco ) in Mexico.
Mono Lake (/ ˈ m oʊ n oʊ / MOH-noh) is a saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin.The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake which make its water alkaline.
Exploring America's Smallest Towns. In a country that boasts metropolises like New York, Miami, San Francisco, and Dallas, it’s easy to forget about the other end of the spectrum — small towns ...
Most species are not under threat due to the low deforestation rates (less than 17%) of native vegetation now in the area due to new regulations. [20] Some of the causes which threaten the Pantanal ecosystems are: Fishing Commercial fishing is focused on only a few species and is probably not sustainable. [21]
From Christmas markets to light displays, small towns across the US get into the holiday spirit. Helen, Georgia, is a recreation of a Bavarian alpine village that goes all-out for Christmas.
The new towns of Littoria (1932, now Latina), Sabaudia (1934), Pontinia (1935), Aprilia (1937), and Pomezia (1939) were founded, side by side with several other small borghi (rural villages). The carefully differentiated architecture and urban planning aspects of these towns is striking even today.