Mojave

Question: What management strategies have been implemented in response to the resilience and vulnerability of a selected ecosystem? The Mojave Desert is a world famous desert that occupies a significant amount of California and smaller parts in surrounding states. Covering thousands of square kilometers, the ecosystems can range from 100 meters below sea level up to 2000 meters above sea level. The biophysical interactions within these ecosystems such as earth movements, soil formation, weather and

California affects how the Mojave tribe lived. First of all, the Mojave were located in Southeastern California Desert..The Mojave tribe were also found along the Colorado River. The Mojave tribe had a mild climate. In winter it is mild and summers are hot. They are located on high grounds in winter because of the floods. Its mild weather was not too hot not too cold but warm. Next, the Mojave had a big community. Settlements had up to 100 people in one village. The Mojave thought of themselves as

The Mojave Desert a place of wildfires, non native plants, and native plants, a natural habitat for many living organisms, that feed and protect. The Mojave Desert is located in parts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Recurring wildfires are damaging the native plants which are then replaced with dangerous, non-native plant species that become uncontrolled. Air pollution and invasive species in the desert makes it hard for organisms found in the surrounding area to survive, with increasing

SpaceShipTwo N339SS Near Koehn Dry Lake, California October 31, 2014 On October 31, 2014 at 1007:32 Pacific Daylight Time Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo reusable suborbital rocket N339SS broke up into multiple pieces during a test flight over the Mojave Dessert. The pilot Peter Siebold managed to survive however the co-pilot Michael Alsbury died. “The primary reason for this test flight included conducting a 38 second burn to test the new hybrid motor which used a nylon fuel grain and nitrous oxide

The usage of land in the Mojave Desert is negatively affecting the desert as a whole. “Some key species are indicators of the overall ecological health of the region … most of these species continue to decline.” was stated by the mojave defenders. Certain animals such as the Mojave ground squirrel represent the health of our environment, and certain groups are inefficiently using the land of the Mojave Desert. Ultimately, this is leading to a decline in these populations. For example, the DOD training

Mojave Desert It's hard to imagine that global warming would have much effect on the world’s already hottest deserts. Global warming increases the area of deserts. Global warming increases the incidence of drought, which dries up water holes. The temperatures may produce an increasing number of wildfires that alter desert landscapes by slow growing trees and Mojave Desert shrubs and replace them with grass. Grazing animals can destroy many desert plants and animals. The largest threat to the

A current threat to the Mojave desert is its renewable energy sources, or windmills as people most know them as. About 50,000 acres of desert tortoise habitat has been built over, mostly in California. Dunes which house many Mojave Fringe toed lizards have been impacted, as well as windmills that have been built in the way of golden eagle habitats. This causes many collision between the birds, a threat that many of them face. Many of these renewable energy sources people are able to see heading down

the Mojave desert people have started to keep track of what's bringing the ecosystem down. In the Mojave desert the threats are mostly affecting the plants and animals. One of the more worrying threats is the invasive plants or otherwise known as alien plants. The invasive plants come in and destroy ecosystems while including all plants, animals, and insects. There are many different types of invasive plants in the Mojave desert, but some cause a bigger change. The plants invading the Mojave desert

People: A Menace to the Mojave When one think of what can be dangerous, or hostile towards a natural environment, one might think of things like the cutting down of trees, or hunting, or urban development. One thing that is common among all of these, is people. One of the most detrimental factors to any environment, and especially the Mojave Desert of Southern California, is the human being. Humans are responsible for damages caused by off road vehicles, pollution, and industrialization. Each

the United States, are trying to make energy systems to be less carbon intensive (Hunold 2011). One method to address the issue presented is by harvesting solar power. California has developed a large scale solar farm plan to install solar in the Mojave Desert; this plan is known as the Solar Grand Plan (Hunold 2011). Based on this plan, solar farms are to be built in scarcely populated areas in the desert. Obstacles arise when these panels are being mounted in areas that have species that under