The Southwest As A Bioregion

Explain how the introduction of new plants, animals, and technologies altered the natural (physical) environment of North America. Think Columbian Exchange.

The environmental issue in the Interior Plains is lumber/timber harvesting. Forest workers are cutting down trees to turn tree parts into lumber and timber.

1600-1849: Era of Abundance Americas being settles and Jamestown first settlement in history and abundance of wildlife (Shaw, 316)

Nucountry is a medium sized country with twenty one million residents. It is divided into three regions. The northern region of the country is dry and abandoned. The southeastern region has rich soil, with major rivers that flow to the ocean. The southwestern region is also fertile and has valuable natural resources. Nucountry has three types of people. Nupeeple are the largest ethnic group in Nucountry making up seventeen million of the country’s overall population. They live in the southeast and work on farms and businesses in cities and towns. The Apeeple are a small ethnic group, two million reside within Nucountry. They live on the southwest and control the natural resources. The Apeeple have their own language and traditions (differing

The Central Valley of California, United States, is a notable structural depression which covers around 32,187km2 (Figure 1), and is bounded by the Cascade Range in the north, the Sierra Nevada in the east, the Tehachapi Mountains to the South, and the Coast Ranges and San Francisco Bay to the west (Planert 1995).

The summers are warm and short. The winters are cold and long. Precipitation ranges from more than 500 mm per year in the north to less than 300 mm in the south of the Prairies. The winter mean temperatures for the coldest months vary from -9.4°C in Lethbridge and -18.3°C in Winnipeg. In contrast, the mean temperature for the warmest month in Winnipeg is 19.7°C. The grasses tend to have long roots which penetrate deep into the soil where they could find moisture. The northern edge of this ecozone marks the beginning of the transition into forest areas. Prior to agricultural settlement in the late 19th century, the Prairie ecozone was the home of millions of bison. Today, mammals of this ecozone include mule and white-tailed deer, coyote, pronghorn (south-central portion), badger, whitetail jackrabbit, Richardson's ground squirrel, northern pocket gopher and the prairie dog. Unique bird species include ferruginous hawk, greater prairie chicken, sharp-tailed grouse, American avocet, burrowing owl, great blue heron, black-billed magpie and Baltimore oriole. Plains grizzlies, swift fox and greater prairie chickens are a few of animals to disappear from the

The native americans had many things that helped them survive today,you will learn about the desert regions

Finally as for the state's surrounding New Hampshire, they are as follows. Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, connecticut, and New York, these are the state’s surrounding New Hampshire. In conclusion please consider this paper for at least A minus, I am pretty sure you will find this work to be of

In his book, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner’s main thesis is to show the inefficiency, greed, and inherent difficulty in the American West’s never-ending struggle to turn its unwelcoming desert into a lush garden. One of his main sub-points is that the West is not meant to support millions of people. It has a wide range of geographic challenges throughout the entire region. Its inconsistency and diversity is a primary cause of its water problems. For example, Reisner notes that the West consists of “plains so arid that they could barely support bunchgrass; deserts that were fiercely hot and fiercely cold; streams that flooded a few weeks each year and went dry the rest; forests with trees so large it might take days to bring one down; . . . hail followed by drought followed by hail;” (23).

'Southwest' by Tamra B. Orr is an incredible book which gives the reader an 'up-front' look at the hottest and driest states in the United States. This 4 state region, labeled the Southwest, is explored and described to us in great detail. The beautiful pictures included help us to journey into the history, landscape, wildlife, government, and culture of our 'Great

Lord Acton said, “The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by its minorities.” In the late 1800’s the security of the minorities in the southwest was in serious jeopardy. For the Apache’s the security was promised but rarely upheld by the American government. The minimal security the Navajo enjoyed vanished by 1846. Men like Kit Carson desired but often failed to maintain the peace and security for these Indian tribes.

The western Cordilleran orogenic belt had been depicted as a passive margin after Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian rifting. Afterwards, the passive margin converted to an active margin most probably about Late Devonian to Late Cretaceous through the subduction of the exotic allochthons beneath the North American plate. The late Jurassic to Cretaceous subduction of (Sevier and Laramide Orogeny) representing as a period of the back thrust, intraplate thrusting, behind a magmatic arc on the upper plate near or on its westernmost margin from the latest

The Southwest has multiple contributing factors making it a unique subset of the overall West. The factors mainly relate to three categories: Physical and cultural geography, and it’s rich history. The physical geography of the Southwest, the temperature, landscape and location, created many situations both in the past and the present that helped to develop the region to where it is today and where it will be in the future. The strong native population has had a huge impact on the cultural identity of the Southwest. The Southwest’s history involving the natives, mexicans, and whites played a large role in shaping the region as we see it today.

The following section provides general descriptions of each of the major biomes on the Reservation. Biomes are communities of plants and animals that are typically expected to be found together on the land. For example Gila monster lizards, jack rabbits, creosote bushes, and prickly pear cactus all might be expected to be found in the same place. Natural resource managers would probably classify such a place a “desert scrub” biome and expect to find it in the southwest United States or northwestern Mexico. Climate, geology, and topography are major factors in determining the occurrence and characteristics of biomes across landscapes.

The term desert is strongly connected to the image of an extremely harsh environment void of any life. The sand dunes at the Gulf of California would fit this description of a desert biome, but for large parts the Sonoran Desert has a stunning array of different organisms.