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Habitats of the Great Lakes Region
Ludington, Michigan. Native dune species include the dune thistle (Cirsium pitcheri), Houghton ...
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Endangered Coast
This in turn could lead to irreversible atmospheric and biodiversity changes. Coastal Sand Dunes. The massive dune fields of this semi-arid region lie ...
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White Sands, New Mexico
Amazon.com. Dune View, White Sands, New Mexico, USA (Order Fine Art Print) In southcentral New Mexico, west of Alamagordo, are the world's largest dune fields of gypsum sand. The ... a fabled site for vision quests of Indians from throughout the southwest and northern Mexico. Dune View, White Sands, New Mexico, USA (Order Fine Art Print) Group Pilgrimages with Martin Gray ...
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Coastal Issues
Dune construction involves piling up beach quality stand to form protective dune fields that replace those washed away during severe storms. ... from high, forested dunes and linear dune ridges commonly backing sand beaches, to active dune fields covering thousands of acres. Native dune species include the dune thistle (Cirsium pitcheri), Houghton's ...
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San Francisco Dunes, NW
San Francisco is on the north bank of Lobos Creek, designated as Point of Interest 2 on this map. There is little of the sand-dune plant ...
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March 10, 2004: China's Shrinking Grain Harvest
In a country where farms average 1.6 acres (0.6 hectares), many grain farmers ... buried one. After a few days, when yet another sandstorm has blown away the sand dune, this kind of manually extended pole will be left behind. Receding grasslands leave goats with ...
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ECNC : Services : Saxifraga-Free nature images : Landscapes : ECNC : The European Centre for Nature Conservation
Middle taiga Montado dehesa Mountains Northern highlands Northern taiga Poland's strip fields Polder Puszta Sandy desert Semi bocage Semi desert Southern taiga Steppe Subtaiga Other ... characteristic deposition cliff coast coastal marsh cuesta dalmation coast delta doline drumlin dune dune lake and brook dune valley eroded hill estuarium explosion crater/mahren firn fjord geroel glacier ...
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KIWC Newsletter October 1998 VOL.7 (4/4)
Protection Area for Birds and Mammals. Sakata is a sand dune lake formed on a lowland between sandbanks of the Niigata Sand Dune, and consists of two lagoons: the small Kami-sakata ... , City of Niigata Winter in Sakata @ @ TOPICS Nesting of Red-Crowned Cranes in Bamboo Grass Fields Sarorun-kamui (or Sarurun-kamui), an Ainu word for Red-crowned Cranes - "Tancho" - means "the ...
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Guidance Heathland and fens - Environmental Data Compendium
The Dutch heathlands are on higher-lying sandy soils and in the coastal dunes. Whereas dune heathland is a natural phenomenon, the heathlands on sandy soils were created from forest by ... cut from the heathland. In spring, the dung-impregnated sods were spread on the arable fields, as fertiliser. Once artificial fertiliser became available, large areas of heathland were converted to arable ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Lantana depressa, which is found on a few dune and limestone ridge habitats of peninsular Florida. It hybridizes with ... an invasive nitrogen-fixing species introduced to a northern California dune preserve--is periodic "bush bashes," in which supervised public volunteers ... islands in 1883-1885 to control introduced rats in sugarcane fields. Its taste for prey of all kinds contributed to the ...
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