The flora of the Simpson Desert ecoregion is limited to drought-resistant shrubs and grasses especially Zygochloa paradoxa grass that holds the dunes together and the spinifex and other tough grasses of sides slopes and sandy desert floor between the dunes.

Desert grasslands extend in large part between the edges of Las Cruces and the lower slopes of the nearby Organ and Robledo Mountains, where grasses and assorted shrubs and cacti dominate large areas of this mostly rangeland as well as the occasional large-lot subdivision housing.

All of the all trees, shrubs and plants — with the exception of the date palms — were propagated and grown at AUC ’ s Desert Development Center.

The desert shrub community, composed of creosote bush and white bursage are the dominant shrubs in the hottest, lowest elevations of Desert National Wildlife Range.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

Transmontane chaparral or Desert chaparral is found on the eastern slopes of major mountain range systems on the western sides of the deserts of California.

The device was detonated at 8. 05 a. m. in a shaft 107 m under the army Pokhran test range in the Thar Desert ( or Great Indian Desert ), Rajasthan.

* S. t. salicamans occurs west of the Sierra Nevada range during the summer and in south and central Baja California to the Mojave Desert and Colorado Desert in winter.

However, the remaining vast tracts of unsettled land were often used as a commons, or, in the American West, " open range " As degradation of habitat developed due to overgrazing and a tragedy of the commons situation arose, common areas began to either be allocated to individual landowners via mechanisms such as the Homestead Act and Desert Land Act and fenced in, or, if kept in public hands, leased to individual users for limited purposes, with fences built to separate tracts of public and private land.

The northwest end of the range is at 52 ° N and between 84 ° and 90 ° E ( where it merges with the Sayan Mountains to the east ), and extends southeast from there to about 45 ° N and 99 ° E, where it gradually becomes lower and merges into the high plateau of the Gobi Desert.

Forty million years ago the Southern Ocean reached the base of the northern and western base of the mountain range, the deposition from the range forming the sea floor which is now Little Desert National Park.

The mountain range known as Desert de les Palmes rises inland north of the town.

They can range from hot to cold, depending on the prevailing temperatures in the source regions, the Great Basin and upper Mojave Desert.

Because the elevation is in the range of 2000 to above sea level, the area, like the other parts of the Mojave Desert region, is alternatively referred to as the High Desert.

This range forms the southern edge of the Antelope Valley portion of the Mojave Desert.

This range mostly coincides with the geographical reach of the Mojave Desert, where it is considered one of the major indicator species for the desert.

Although many believe that the operation was named for German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who earned the nickname " Desert Fox " during the North African Campaign of World War II, this was not the case ; the operational name was one of at least a half dozen contingency plans that U. S. Central Command developed to respond to a range of possible crises involving Iraq.

They are strongly built, with stouter legs and a slightly thicker bill than many other warblers, and range in size from 11 cm length and 7 g weight ( African Desert Warbler ) up to 17 cm length and 36 g weight ( Barred Warbler ).

A vast alluvial fan blossoms across the desolate landscape between the Kunlun Mountains | Kunlun and Altyn-Tagh | Altun mountain range s that form the southern border of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang.

The town of Bar Harbor was founded on the northeast shore of Mount Desert Island, which the Wabanaki Indians knew as Pemetic, meaning " range of mountains " or " mountains seen at a distance.

The Namib-Naukluft National Park is a national park of Namibia encompassing part of the Namib Desert ( considered the world's oldest desert ) and the Naukluft mountain range.

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.

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

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.

Desert foliage suitable for a dry region soon replaced water-guzzling grass in Arizona lawns.

Desert chaparral grows above California's desert cactus scrub plant community, and below the Pinyon-juniper woodland.

The Sonoran Desert includes plant genera and species from the agave family, palm family, cactus family, legume family, and numerous others.

In addition, the Alan Bible Visitor Center has a small cactus garden of plants native to the Mojave Desert.

File: Cacti barrel. JPG | Barrel cactus at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

The Desert woodrat sometimes appropriates the burrows of a ground squirrels or kangaroo rats, and will fortify the entrance with sticks and bits of spiny cactus collected from Jumping and Teddy-bear Chollas.

The saguaro cactus Carnegiea gigantea and the ocotillo Fouquieria splendens are common on the bajadas, while many of the desert trees found are restricted to dry watercourses ; these include palo verdes Parkinsonia, the desert willow Chilopsis linearis, Desert Ironwood Olneya tesota, and smoke trees Psorothamnus spinosus.

It features several plants native to the Sonoran Desert including the saguaro cactus, and animals such as the coyote, collared peccary ( more commonly known as the Javelina ), mountain lion, bobcat, bald eagle, raven, turkey vulture, coati, thick billed parrot, Sonoran pronghorn, and the Mexican grey wolf.

Located next to the Mediterranean Conservatory, this second greenhouse simulates a dry climate and displays a collection of plant life from deserts of the American Southwest, such as saguaro cactus and palo verde trees from the Sonoran Desert, creosote and yucca from the Chihuahuan Desert, and elephant trees from Baja.

Grusonia pulchella is a tuberous species of opuntioid cactus from the Mojave Desert of central Nevada, eastern California and western Utah in the United States.

Other flowering plants such as the Desert Marigold ( Baileya multiradiata ), Desert Willow ( Chilopsis linearis ), Ocotillo ( Fouquieria splendens ), Rock Nettle ( Eucnide urens ) and Lechuguilla ( Agave lechuguilla ) abound in Big Bend.

El-Baz believes that the ancient Egyptians chose to bury their dead in pyramid shaped structures because they knew from an earlier nomadic life that monumental pyramidal landforms which abound in the Western Desert of Egypt, and evade erosion.

No meteorites have ever been recovered from paleoexplosion craters, and recent craters containing impact glass have all been produced by metallic meteorites with the exception of Aouelloul crater, Adrar, Western Sahara Desert.

According to Greek mythology, the amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from the Gorgon Medusa's head as Perseus flew over the Libyan Desert with it in his hand.

Link-4 datalink capability allowed US Navy Tomcats to share information with the E-2C Hawkeye AEW aircraft, and during Desert Shield in 1990, the Link-4A was introduced and allowed the Tomcats to have a fighter-to-fighter datalink capability, further enhancing overall situational awareness.

Athanasius went into hiding in the desert with the Desert Fathers, and continued in his capacity as bishop from there until the death of Constantius II in 361.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

** Desert vegetation with considerable exposed surface

Under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor, a military column, commanded by Colonel Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and including two battalions of Sara troops, moved north from N ' Djamena ( then Fort Lamy ) to engage Axis forces in Libya, where, in partnership with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, they captured Kufra.

Since 1990, the ACR and the Czech Armed Forces have contributed to numerous peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, including IFOR, SFOR, and EUFOR Althea in Bosnia, Desert Shield / Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Albania, Turkey, Pakistan and with the Coalition forces in Iraq.

Desert chaparral is a regional ecosystem subset of the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, with some plant species from the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.

* Prunus fasciculata, Desert almond, ( commonly infested with tent caterpillars of Malacosoma spp.

Although the U. S. Air Force sent fighters such as the F-16 to theater in Desert Shield, they had to carry bombs with them as no stores were in place for sustained operations whereas the carriers arrived on scene with full magazines and had support ships to allow them to conduct strikes indefinitely.

It is in the Negev Desert, therefore it has a desert climate with low humidity for most of the year and little precipitation.

While there are constant rumours that she has affairs with male celebrities in order to build her profile, in some cases she simply creates the rumours herself ; in The Desert Angel ( series 1 ) she confesses to Pat Cash that she started a rumour about having an affair with him.

The IBRA regions, with Great Victoria Desert in red

Thunderstorms are relatively common in the Great Victoria Desert, with an average of 15 – 20 thunderstorms per annum.

The Caucasus, Himalaya, Karakum Desert, and Gobi Desert formed barriers that the steppe horsemen could only cross with difficulty.

Its western border with Pakistan lies in the Punjab Plain and the Thar Desert.

Its western border with Pakistan extends up to 3, 323 km ( 2, 065 mi ), dividing the Punjab region and running along the boundaries of the Thar Desert and the Rann of Kutch.

When Saddam Hussein failed to comply with this demand, the Gulf War ( Operation " Desert Storm ") ensued on January 17, 1991.

Once back in Mosul, he joined a " feeder " caravan of pilgrims heading south to Baghdad where they would meet up with the main caravan that crossed the Arabian Desert to Mecca.

JPL manages the worldwide Deep Space Network, with facilities in California's Mojave Desert, in Spain near Madrid, and in Australia near Canberra.