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7 unusual facts about southwestern United States


Crotaphytidae

The Crotaphytidae, or collared lizards, are a family of desert-dwelling reptiles native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Gary Paul Nabhan

Gary Paul Nabhan (born 1952) is an agricultural ecologist, ethnobotanist, and writer whose work has focused primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert Southwest.

Held Up

While on a road trip in the Southwest, Rae (Long) discovers that her man, Michael (Foxx), spent the $15,000 they set aside for a home on a vintage Studebaker.

Lesser Nighthawk

Their breeding habitat is open country from southwest United States through Central America to tropical South America.

United States Court of Private Land Claims

During Spanish (1598–1821) and Mexican (1821–1846) rule over what was to become the U.S. Southwest, the governments made land grants to various individuals and communities.

Vance Haynes

, is an archaeologist, geologist and author who specializes in the archaeology of the American Southwest.

Yampa River

The Yampa River is a 250 mi (402 km) long river in northwestern Colorado, of the Southwestern United States.


American Dusky Flycatcher

As non-breeding residents in the south of their migration range, they are passage migrants over the deserts of the southwest US, the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts, where they make their stops along the flyway.

Australian feral camel

(Other feral dromedary populations existed in the 20th century in Doñana National Park in Spain, and in the southwestern United States, while a small population of wild Bactrian camels still exists in the Gobi Desert.) Live camels are exported to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Brunei and Malaysia, where disease-free wild camels are prized as a delicacy.

Campostoma ornatum

The Mexican stoneroller (Campostoma ornatum) is a small fish of the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

Cucurbita argyrosperma

It is also grown in the Sonoran Desert region of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico by native peoples, especially the Tohono O'odham, where it is especially prized when immature as a summer squash.

DGSE Companies

is a leading precious metal and jewelry wholesaler and retailer in the Southwestern United States, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Dryland farming

Dryland farming is used in the Great Plains, the Palouse plateau of Eastern Washington, and other arid regions of North America such as in the Southwestern United States and Mexico (see Agriculture in the Southwestern United States and Agriculture in the prehistoric Southwest), the Middle East and in other grain growing regions such as the steppes of Eurasia and Argentina.

Estevanico

He was one of four survivors among the 600 men who started, and traveled for eight years with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado across northern New Spain (present-day U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico), before they reached Spanish forces in Mexico City in 1536.

Fusion cuisine

Other examples of this style include Tex-Mex, which combines Southwestern United States cuisine and Mexican cuisines, and Pacific rim cuisine, which combines the different cuisines of the various island nations.

Great Basin Bird Observatory

Research projects conducted by the Great Basin Bird Observatory include several telemetry tracking projects of Elf Owl, Pinyon Jay, and Greater Sage-Grouse, and models of distribution, population densities, and habitat use for a large variety of birds of the Intermountain West and Southwest.

Hot Lips Page

In his early years, Page, who moved to Corsicana, Texas in his early teens, traveled across the Southwestern United States and toured as far east as Atlanta and as far north as New York City.

Jane H. Hill

She has worked with descriptive linguistics writing a grammar of the Cupeño language, and has contributed to the fields of linguistic anthropology and socio-linguistics with her works about Nahuatl and about the linguistic expressions of racism towards Spanish-speakers in the American Southwest in her works about mock Spanish.

Kofa National Wildlife Refuge

The Kofa National Wildlife Refuge is located in Arizona in the southwestern United States, northeast of Yuma and southeast of Quartzsite.

Larrea

One of the more notable species is the Creosote Bush (L. tridentata) of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico The King Clone ring in the Mojave Desert is a Creosote Bush clonal colony estimated to be 11,700 years old.

Nama demissum

Purple mat, Nama demissum, grows in the American desert southwest, such as the Mojave Desert, and parts of Mexico on dry sandy or gravelly flats from 2000' to 5500' in creosote bush scrub.

Standard Air Lines

Standard Air Lines was a transport agent for U.S. Air Mail and also flew passengers to destinations throughout the Southwest United States, including Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tucson, Douglas, Arizona and El Paso.

Tucson Garbage Project

The Tucson Garbage Project is an archaeological and sociological study instituted in 1973 by Dr. William Rathje in the city of Tucson in the Southwestern American state of Arizona.


see also

Adenophyllum porophylloides

It is native to the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Amigos Library Services

Amigos began in 1974 in Dallas, Texas, USA, as AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, when 22 libraries united to bring OCLC access to the southwestern United States.

Arceuthobium divaricatum

It is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it lives in woodlands as a parasite on various species of pine, particularly Colorado Pinyon and Single-leaf Pinyon.

Azer

AZER, the reporting mark for the Arizona Eastern Railway, a Class III railroad in the southwestern United States

C. digitata

Cucurbita digitata, the fingerleaf gourd and bitter squash, a flowering plant species native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico

C. ramosissima

Cylindropuntia ramosissima, the diamond cholla or branched pencil cholla, a cactus species native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the Southwestern United States, California, and Northwestern Mexico, and to Baja California and its Islas San Benito

Cistanthe parryi

It is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California.

Eriogonum davidsonii

This plant is native to the southwestern United States and northern Baja California, where it grows in sandy or gravelly soils in a variety of habitats.

False buckthorn

Sideroxylon lanuginosum, a species unrelated to the "true" buckthorns, native to the Southwestern United States

Geoglyph

Other areas with geoglyphs include Megaliths in the Urals, South Australia (Marree Man, which is not ancient, rather a modern work of art, with mysterious origins), Western Australia and parts of the Great Basin Desert in the southwestern United States.

Gray squirrel

The Arizona gray squirrel (Sciurus arizonensis), from the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico

Hog potato

Hoffmannseggia glauca, a legume with edible tubers, native to the Southwestern United States

Joel Rafael

As a solo performer and with his band, he opened shows throughout the southwestern United States for artists including Crosby, Stills and Nash, Sheryl Crow, Laura Nyro, Taj Mahal, Iris DeMent, Emmylou Harris and the legendary John Lee Hooker.

K. californica

Kallstroemia californica,the California caltrop, a flowering plant species native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico

Lewisia brachycalyx

It is native to the mountains of the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it grows in moist habitat such as meadows.

Linanthus bigelovii

It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico where it grows mainly in dry habitat, such as the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts.

Mid-Continent oil province

The successes that followed of the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 (Bartlesville, Oklahoma) in 1897, Spindletop (Texas) in 1901, and the Ida Glenn No. 1 (Glenn Pool, Oklahoma) in 1905, demonstrated the existence of a large oil field in the central and southwestern United States.

Mohavea breviflora

It is native to the southwestern United States, including the Mojave Desert and surrounding areas.

O. californica

Oenothera californica, the California evening primrose, a flowering plant species native to parts of the southwestern United States and Baja California

O. pubescens

Oenothera pubescens, the South American evening-primrose, a plant species native to the Southwestern United States

P. mexicana

Purshia mexicana, the Mexican cliffrose, a perennial flowering small tree species native to western-northern Mexico and the southwestern United States

R. californica

Rafinesquia californica, the California chicory or California plumeseed, a flowering plant species native to most of the southwestern United States as far north as Oregon and to Baja California in Mexico

S. incana

Sphaeralcea incana, the grey globemallow, a perennial desert plant species found in Southwestern United States

Spergularia villosa

It is native to southern South America, and it is known in the southwestern United States and Baja California as an introduced species and casual weed.

T. plicata

Tiquilia plicata, the fanleaf crinklemat, a perennial, subshrub-like plant species found in the southwestern United States and Northern Mexico

Turpentine bush

Ericameria laricifolia, native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico

Wild gourd

Cucurbita foetidissima, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico