* Scorpions from the Chihuahuan Desert Region of Mexico and the United States

Category: Flora of the Chihuahuan Desert

* Selaginella lepidophylla-resurrection plant, dinosaur plant, and flower of stone ( Chihuahuan Desert of North America )

** Chihuahuan Desert, a desert covering much of the state and adjacent regions

The Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute arboretum was established in 1974.

Dona Ana County lies within the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion, and the vegetation surrounding the built portions of the city are typical of this setting ; it includes Creosote Bush ( Larrea tridentata ), Soaptree ( Yucca elata ), Tarbush ( Flourensia cernua ), Broom Dalea ( Psorothamnus scoparius ), and various desert grasses such as Tobosa ( Hilaria mutica or Pleuraphis mutica ) and Black Grama ( Bouteloua eriopoda ).

* Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and Botanical Gardens at the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute

Marfa is in the Chihuahuan Desert

The city is located in the Chihuahuan Desert, an underdeveloped region of about 140, 000 square miles (~ 362, 600 km² ).

Besides the Chihuahuan Desert lands in southwestern and southern New Mexico, they also have scattered desert lands in the northwestern and northern portions of their state which is referred to as the high desert.

Western Texas in the Chihuahuan Desert is also traditionally considered part of the Western U. S, though from a climatological perspective the West might be said to begin just west of Austin, TX where annual rainfall drops off significantly from what is typically experienced in the East, with a concurrent change in plant and animal species.

Category: Fauna of the Chihuahuan Desert

In the Chihuahuan Desert of west Texas and northern Mexico, it occurs in riparian habitats, usually near permanent or semipermanent water and sometimes in dry arroyos ( brooks ).

Mesquite ( from Nahuatl mizquitl ) is a leguminous plant of the Prosopis genus found in northern Mexico through the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Deserts, and up into the Southwestern United States as far north as southern Kansas, west to the Colorado Desert in California, and east to the eastern fifth of Texas, where average annual rainfall is in excess of.

Big Bend has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, which includes more than 1, 200 species of plants, more than 450 species of birds, 56 species of reptiles, and 75 species of mammals.

The Rio Grande, meandering through this portion of the Chihuahuan Desert, has cut deep canyons with nearly vertical walls through three uplifts made primarily of limestone.

* Chihuahuan Desert

Category: Chihuahuan Desert

* Chihuahuan Desert

The Edwards Plateau is a region of west-central Texas which is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east, the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado to the north, and the Pecos River and Chihuahuan Desert to the west.

Category: Flora of the Chihuahuan Desert

* Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute

In the fall of 2006, 26 Bolson Tortoises were translocated from the Audubon Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch in Elgin, Arizona to Ted Turner ’ s Armendaris Ranch in south-central New Mexico, a Chihuahuan desert environment within the prehistoric range of this species.

He was also the founder and director of the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute, which is dedicated to the study of desert animals and plants of southwest Texas and Mexico.

He was assigned command of the Center Division and led the Chihuahuan Expedition, which resulted in the capture of Saltillo.

His work has focused on two distinct aspects of ecology: the population and community ecology of rodents and harvester ants in the Chihuahuan Desert and large-scale questions relating to the distribution of body size, abundance and geographic range of animals, leading to the development of the field of macroecology, a term that was coined in a paper Brown co-authored with Brian Maurer of Michigan State University.

To date, meteorites numbering possibly into the thousands have been recovered from the Mojave, Sonoran, Great Basin, and Chihuahuan Deserts, with many being recovered on dry lake beds.

Like the Chihuahuan Raven it is one of the smaller species ( 47 cm in length ), in fact it is about the same size as a Carrion Crow but with a much thicker bill, shorter tail and much larger wings.

The mean annual precipitation for the Chihuahuan Desert is with a range of approximately.

During the Fall, McKittrick comes alive with a blaze of color from the turning Bigtooth Maples, in stark contrast with the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert.

* PAZ Ecovillage, is an oasis of biodiversity in the Chihuahuan Desert near Terlingua, Texas that represents a Permanent Autonomous Zone that is dedicated to self-reliance, self-expression, sustainability, freedom, and peace from the conventional standards of society by utilizing the path of least resistance ; the natural environment, conserving its resources, and living in cohesion with the Earth while maintaining a general consensus based community of dwellers and free thinkers.

In 1977 Brown, in collaboration with Diane Davidson and James Reichman, started a research project in the Chihuahuan desert near Portal, AZ to study competition between rodents and ants and their influence on the annual plant community.

Larrea tridentata is a prominent species in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts of western North America, and its range includes those and other regions in portions of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and western Texas in the United States, and northern Chihuahua and Sonora in Mexico.

The Chihuahuan Desert is a desert, and an ecoregion designation, that straddles the U. S .- Mexico border in the central and northern portions of the Mexican Plateau, bordered on the west by the extensive Sierra Madre Occidental range, and overlaying northern portions of the east range, the Sierra Madre Oriental.

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.

: Lower Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico, from S Coahuila to Tlaxcala ; generally separated from texana woodhouseii ; range adjacent to grisea in S Chihuahuan Desert.

Cibola biomes range from Chihuahuan desert to short grass prairie to piñon-juniper to sub-alpine spruce and fir.

The Northern Mexico bioregion includes the mild-winter to cold-winter deserts and xeric shrublands of northern Mexico, Southern California, and the Southwestern United States, including the Chihuahuan, Sonoran, and Mojave deserts.

From elevation to, the Upper Sonoran Zone is found, but notable differences occur: one first finds a zone of primarily juniper, then a mixed Piñon-Juniper-evergreen Oak zone, while a thin cover of black grama grass ( Bouteloua eriopoda ) shifts in its dominance to a less thin cover of blue grama grass ( Bouteloua gracilis ); some plants of Chihuahuan Desert affinities are found in this area, including oreganillo, mariola, desert marigold, and subspecies of the often-numerous Engelmann prickly pear.

The term " chicano " may have come from Mexican immigrants to the U. S. during the 1920s and 1930s, but by those originated from Chihuahua ( not the term " Chi -" hua-hua " when they came into Texas where the locals made fun of the way the Chihuahuan Mexicans, primarily indigenous rural peasants, spoke a " less common " dialect of Spanish ).

San Angelo falls on the southwestern edge of the Edwards Plateau and the northeastern edge of the Chihuahuan desert at the juncture of the North and South Concho rivers.

The Chihuahuan Raven, a much larger and very different bird, is the only crow it commonly occurs alongside.

According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas.

The closest relatives of the Common Raven are the Brown-necked Raven ( C. ruficollis ) and the Pied Crow ( C. albus ) of Africa, and the Chihuahuan Raven ( C. cryptoleucus ) of the North American southwest.

The findings indicate that based on mitochondrial DNA, Common Ravens from the rest of the United States are more closely related to those in Europe and Asia than to those in the California clade, and that Common Ravens in the California clade are more closely related to the Chihuahuan Raven ( C. cryptoleucus ) than to those in the Holarctic clade.

One million years ago, a group from the California clade evolved into a new species, the Chihuahuan Raven.