Saving Canada's only desert
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Re: Saving Canada's only desert
#2In case it helps anyone unfamiliar with the geography, the Okanagan Desert is the northern tip of the arid region which covers the Eastern half of Washington state; it lies in the rain shadow of the Cascade mountains.
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#3> by the Okanagan Desert, a semi-arid region
aren't deserts defined by being arid regions?
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#4The whole tundra is a desert. Everything north of the arctic circle is a desert.
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#5> by the Okanagan Desert, a semi-arid region aren't deserts defined by being arid regions?
You are correct.
It is "technically only semi-arid shrub-steppe." [0] which are "Shrub-steppes are distinguishable from deserts, which are too dry to support a noticeable cover of perennial grasses or other shrubs" [1]
Semi-arid regions are also colloquially called "semi-deserts". As far as the semi-arid regions I have visited go, it seems to have pretty decent vegetation compared to others.
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#6The whole tundra is a desert. Everything north of the arctic circle is a desert.
”Everything north of the arctic circle is a desert”
Nope ;-) https://www.flickr.com/photos/83908676@N02/12262674976/
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#7Not really related, but I just wanted to share - there's another desert that almost no one knows about, and it's right in the middle of Europe - in Poland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%82%C4%99d%C3%B3w_Desert
It's slowly disappearing though.
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#8Not really related, but I just wanted to share - there's another desert that almost no one knows about, and it's right in the middle of Europe - in Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%82%C4%99d%C3%B3w_Desert It's slowly disappearing though.
That's more of a dustbowl caused by deforestation - doesn't have the arid (or semi-arid) climate of a true desert.
The Osoyoos "desert" isn't really arid enough, either.
Deserts don't have to look like sand dunes, they are any area with a low rainfall. Sometimes the plants that are adapted are virtually a forest, but it's still a desert. For example in the Baja California desert: https://mbgecologicalrestoration.files.wordpress.com/2015/03...
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#9Our only desert? There is a small desert in Yukon, as well: Carcross Desert. At least by my definition of a desert: wind blown sand dunes with little patches of hardy shrubs and scrawny trees.
Maybe the fact that it formed from a lake bed makes it not a real desert?
Re: Saving Canada's only desert
#10Not really related, but I just wanted to share - there's another desert that almost no one knows about, and it's right in the middle of Europe - in Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%82%C4%99d%C3%B3w_Desert It's slowly disappearing though.
Why would you want to conserve that? Isn't reverse-desertification a good thing?