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    The SnakeColumbia shrub steppe is an ecoregion defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). This ecoregion receives little precipitation because...
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    Shrub-Steppe". Washington Native Plant Society. "Great Basin shrub steppe". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. "Snake-Columbia shrub steppe"...
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  • Thumbnail for South Central Rockies forests
    Montana valley and foothill grasslands, Wyoming Basin shrub steppe, and SnakeColumbia shrub steppe. There also are mountain meadows, riparian woodlands...
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    Palouse region was defined as the fertile hills and prairies north of the Snake River, which separated it from Walla Walla County, and north of the Clearwater...
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  • California montane chaparral and woodlands Great Basin shrub steppe Mojave Desert SnakeColumbia shrub steppe Sonoran Desert Colorado Death Valley Lahontan Oregon...
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    Deserts and xeric shrublands Snake-Columbia shrub steppe California Nearctic Deserts and xeric shrublands Snake-Columbia shrub steppe Idaho Nearctic Deserts...
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    Rock Rivers, which are a similar habitat to the neighbouring Snake-Columbia shrub steppe ecoregion. Finally the ecoregion contains parts of the Prairie...
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    Mexico Meseta Central matorral Mexico Mojave Desert United States SnakeColumbia shrub steppe United States Sonoran Desert Mexico, United States Tamaulipan...
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  • Thumbnail for City of Rocks National Reserve
    Located in the Northern Basin and Range/Snake-Columbia shrub steppe ecoregions and the Raft Watershed of the Upper Snake River Basin, the habitat of the reserve...
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    Idaho The Wyoming Basin (ecoregion) is dominated by arid grasslands and shrub steppe, but also contains the Red Desert (Wyoming) Owyhee Desert, in southwestern...
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    Okanagan Desert (category Geography of British Columbia)
    South Okanagan shrub-steppe ecosystem is a habitat for 30% of the Red-listed and 46% of the Blue-listed vertebrates in British Columbia, with several listed...
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  • and continental climate. The Oregon Lakes is mostly within the SnakeColumbia shrub steppe terrestrial ecoregion, and the predominant vegetation is low...
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  • Mexico Meseta Central matorral Mexico Mojave Desert United States SnakeColumbia shrub steppe United States Sonoran Desert Mexico, United States Tamaulipan...
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    interior. In some of the eastern parts of the watershed, especially shrub-steppe regions with Continental climate patterns, precipitation maximums occur...
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    Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome (WWF) Wyoming Basin shrub steppe - Deserts and xeric shrublands biome (WWF) Central Basin and Range ecoregion...
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    meadow and shrub-steppe. It bisects the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, an area of northeastern Washington on the eastern edge of the Columbia River Basin...
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    Mojave desert United States Nearctic Deserts and xeric shrublands SnakeColumbia shrub steppe United States Nearctic Deserts and xeric shrublands Sonoran desert...
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    show a peak in shadscale steppe conditions between 10 and 8 Kya. Shadscale steppe is dominated by low-growing Chenopod shrubs and flourish in conditions...
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    common than in the Upper Snake River Plain. Non-irrigated land grows small grains. Potential natural vegetation is sagebrush steppe, with mountain big sagebrush...
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    (1979): Tallgrass (true) prairie Shortgrass prairie Mixed-grass prairie Shrub steppe Annual grassland Desert (arid) grassland High mountain grassland These...
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  • Thumbnail for Blue Mountains (ecoregion)
    Central Oregon, across a wide swath of the Columbia Plateau in Eastern Oregon, to Hells Canyon on the Snake River at the border of the three states. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Northern Basin and Range ecoregion
    cutthroat trout in the Snake River system American avocet at Summer Lake Sage grouse in shrub-steppe habitat Sagebrush-Steppe in south-central Idaho along...
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    Richland, Washington (category Washington (state) populated places on the Columbia River)
    Tri-Cities and the Columbia and Yakima rivers. A non-profit group, Friends of Badger Mountain, worked to procure this shrub-steppe area that has the most...
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    Tri-Cities, Washington (category Snake River)
    at the confluence of the Yakima, Snake, and Columbia Rivers in the U.S. state of Washington. Located in the Columbia Basin of Eastern Washington, the...
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    Range ecoregion), and by the World Wildlife Fund (i.e., Great Basin shrub steppe and Great Basin montane forests) The larger deserts of the Great Basin...
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    for the border followed the Columbia River east until the confluence with the Snake, and then would have followed the Snake River east; this was changed...
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  • Thumbnail for Astragalus purshii
    including mountains and deserts. It is common along the Columbia River in arid, shrubsteppe habitat growing in shallow soils. It is a serial species...
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    Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre (category Natural history museums in British Columbia)
    of the Canada–United States border. It is situated within a semi-arid shrub-steppe desert environment, which is one of the most endangered ecosystems in...
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    Wallula Gap (category Columbia River)
    lava that spread widely over great distances. Along the Snake River in Idaho, and the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon, these lava flows have been...
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    Umatilla National Wildlife Refuge (category Columbia River)
    islands, and shrub-steppe upland habitats. It is divided into six units—two in Oregon, three in Washington, and one in the middle of the Columbia River. The...
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