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This section has information intended to inspire the reader to maximize the potential of their landscape, whether travel. Much is yet to be added; keep checking for that.
High Desert / Southwestern
Ecoregions
Different places
that have a similar climate, soils and native plants are often
classified as one "ecoregion" or "biome".
Knowing a locations' ecoregion enables having the most successful
landscape possible in a given area. It also explains why some
landscape choices are doomed.
**Note - only the Chihuahuan
Desert link is to a map of my making, and it is preliminary and
not detailed out...yet; the rest of the maps are from other sources,
for the present time, while my latest research and mapping is
in progress. Also note that one ecoregion may contain smaller
parts of other ecoregions, but it is difficult to see this at
each map's scale.
| General | Ecoregion |
Representative City / Location |
| Southwestern US | WARMER ECOREGIONS: coldest month > 32F | |
| + Chihuahuan Desert** |
Albuquerque NM El Paso TX |
|
| + Colorado Plateau / Navajoan Desert |
Page AZ Sedona AZ Moab UT |
|
| + AZ-NM Mountains (Madrean part) |
Sandia Heights Silver City NM Prescott AZ |
|
| + Southern Plains |
Tucumcari NM Amarillo TX |
|
| + Mojave Desert |
Las Vegas NV Bishop CA |
|
| COOLER ECOREGIONS: coldest month < 32F | ||
| + Great Basin / NM-AZ Plateaus, Mesas | Gallup NM Espanola NM | |
| + Central-Northern High Plains |
Moriarty NM Raton NM |
|
| + AZ-NM Mountains (Rocky Mtn part) |
Cedar Crest NM Mountainair NM |
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Ecoregions Landscape Climates Seasonal Notes Other Information |
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