Because of the Great Salt Lake's high salinity, it has few fish, but they do occur in Bear River Bay and Farmington Bay when spring runoff brings fresh water into the lake.

Because police, fire and emergency officials found that giving a teddy bear to a child during a crisis stabilized and calmed them, NAPLC created the Teddy Bear Cops program to distribute teddy bears to police, fire, and emergency officials throughout the United States, for their use in providing teddy bears to children in emergency situations.

Because the Nez Perce paused instead of pressing ahead, on September 30, General Miles ' column caught up with the Nez Perce who were camped on Snake Creek east of the Bear Paw Mountains, just from Canada.

Because the construction efforts on Veliki Brijun Island were jeopardized by malaria outbreaks which occurred during summer months, and even Austrian steel industrialist Paul Kupelweiser himself fell ill with the disease, at the turn of the century Kupelweiser invited in Koch, who at the time was studying different forms of malaria and quinine-based treatments.

Because numerous small islands surround Isle Royale, ships were once guided through the area by lighthouses at Passage Island, Rock Harbor, Rock of Ages, and Isle Royale Lighthouse on Menagerie Island.

Because of its southern and seagirt location, Jeju Island has warmer and milder weather than other parts of South Korea.

Because of opposition from William Coddington on " Rhode Island ", it took Williams until 1647 to get the four towns around Narragansett Bay to unite under a single government, and liberty of conscience was again proclaimed.

Because his force was inferior, he chose the narrow, rocky body of water between the western shore of Lake Champlain and Valcour Island ( near modern Plattsburgh, New York ), where the British fleet would have difficulty bringing its superior firepower to bear, and where the inferior seamanship of his relatively unskilled sailors would have a minimal negative effect.

Because the latter operation failed, the successful seizure of Morris Island was not effective in threatening Charleston.

Because of these restrictions, there is no regular vehicle ferry service for visitors to take their car to Avalon and the rest of Catalina Island.

Because of this height, it was used by the local Tongva Indians for signal fires that could be seen throughout the surrounding area and even out to Catalina Island, away.

Because of the “ high bluffs ” that came right to the edge of Cape Fear river from the west, and a land mass between Navassa and Wilmington that would allow the construction of railroad tracks across Eagle ’ s Island, the railroad company decided to build a bridge across the Cape Fear at Navassa two years after the Civil War ended in 1867.

Because of its distance from the mainland, Tangier is very isolated, its nearest neighbors being other islands such as Smith Island, Maryland.

Because Drygalski Island was thought to be " Drygalski's High Land ", charted by Professor Erich von Drygalski of the German Antarctic Expedition ( 1901-1903 ) in 1902, Drygalski's name was given by Sir Douglas Mawson to the island.

Because December is in the middle of the Southern Hemisphere summer, white Christmases there are extremely rare, except in Antarctica, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand's South Island, and in parts of the Andes in South America.

Because Plomley was a freelance, Desert Island Discs became his copyright.

Because it is on the small island, one of Canada's national historic sites, of the same name, in Foxe Basin that is very close to the Melville Peninsula ( and to a lesser degree, Baffin Island ), it is often thought to be on the peninsula.

Because of its particularly remote location, Kure Island has been the scene of several amateur radio DX expeditions, or DX-peditions.

Because of his widespread effect and partly because so little exists that can now be linked to one of the world's greatest mariners and authors, it has been argued that the remains of his ship and the objects still remaining on the site at Ascension Island – while remaining the property of Britain and managed by Ascension Island – are perhaps best viewed as the shared maritime heritage of those parts of the world first visited or described by Dampier.

Because the route through East Boston and over the Boston Harbor would block ships ' route to the future Charlestown Navy Yard the turnpike was set to go through Chelsea as opposed to over Noddle's Island.

Because of declining revenues as result of Indian Casinos in Rhode Island and Connecticut Suffolk Downs canceled the 2009 MassCap.

Because of the shortages, Anderson reduced his firing to only six guns: two aimed at Cummings Point, two at Fort Moultrie, and two at the Sullivan's Island batteries.

Because she lives in the Chikubu Island and the shape of the lake is similar to Biwa, her favorite instrument.

Because the Channel Islands are almost entirely owned and controlled by either the Catalina Island Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, or the federal government, the fox has a chance to receive the protection it needs, including constant supervision by interested officials without the ongoing threat of human encroachment on its habitat.

Because the high price of land in the Voree area made it difficult for Latter Day Saints to " gather " there, Strang moved his church headquarters to Beaver Island in Lake Michigan.

Because Tajikistan lies in an active seismic belt, severe earthquakes are common.

Because the town lies in the rain shadow ( leeward side ) of the Harz, less precipitation falls here than in similar temperate regions without the protection of a mountain range.

Because it almost lies within Switzerland, directly adjacent to the Swiss border, Konstanz was not bombed by the Allied Forces during World War II.

Because of where its eastern boundary lies, it is also the easternmost municipality in the South Florida metropolitan area.

Because the Indiana-Kentucky border is defined as the low-water mark on the north bank of the Ohio River as of 1792, and because the river changed course as a result of the New Madrid Earthquake of 1812, a small portion of Henderson County ( approximately long and wide ), lies north of the current course of the river in what would appear to be part of Indiana.

Because Læsø is an island and lies in the Kattegat, its neighboring municipality, Frederikshavn on the Jutland peninsula, is separated by water, the Læsø Rende, from the island municipality.

Because the Sacred's essence lies only in the mythical age, only in the Sacred's first appearance, any later appearance is actually the first appearance ; by recounting or re-enacting mythical events, myths and rituals " re-actualize " those events.

Because the Sacred lies outside cyclic time, which conditions humans, people can only reach the Sacred by escaping the human condition.

Because their doctrines were esoteric and exoteric, and because it was believed that men in general could not understand the higher paths, the Priscillianists, or at least those of them who were enlightened, were permitted to tell lies for the sake of a holy end.

Because it lies beyond range.

Because the fall line lies as low as, wooded areas are rare inside the park, except in the flatter western sections surrounding Wonder Lake.

Because Tokamachi lies in a valley, wind patterns bring in clouds from both the sea of Japan as well as the Pacific ocean.

Because the park lies completely within the White Sands Missile Range, both the park and U. S. Route 70 between Las Cruces, New Mexico and Alamogordo are subject to closure for safety reasons when tests are conducted on the missile range.

Because each portion of the painted object lies on the straight line from the viewer's eye to the equivalent portion of the real object it represents, the viewer cannot perceive ( sans depth perception ) any difference between the painted scene on the windowpane and the view of the real scene.

Because of that, this canton is sometimes called Bosanska Posavina ( Bosnian Posavina ) and is the only part of northern Bosnia near the border with Croatia that lies in the Federation.

Because Winterthur lies near Zurich and at the junction of seven cross-roads ; the army that held the town held the access to most of Switzerland and points crossing the Rhine into southern Germany.

Because of the low-lying nature of the peninsula, which this part of Florida lies, this lake and the area around it certainly would have been flooded and obliterated along with many of the other lakes and bogs described in their and other publications.

Because continental crust mainly lies above sea level, its existence allowed land life to evolve from marine life.

Because most of the volcano lies underneath Vatnajökull, most of its eruptions have been subglacial and the interaction of magma and meltwater from the ice causes phreatomagmatic explosive activity.

Because it lies on the windward side of the Gulf Stream, Vík í Mýrdal is the wettest coastal town in Iceland, with an annual rainfall of, which is three times more than Reykjavík and five times more than Akureyri on the northern side of the island.

Because utilizing existing software applications lies in this trend, executives will also eliminate the need to learn a new or special language for the EIS package.

Because the Architect resides in a room that lies on the path to the Source, the One would invariably encounter him along the way.

Because the location of the tower lies in the seismic zone of Basel – Erdbebengebiet in the Upper Rhine district, this has been built especially securely about the base.

Because mid-ocean ridges lie at a higher elevation than the rest of the ocean floor, gravity causes the ridge to push on the lithosphere that lies farther from the ridge.