Sentences with phrase «sky island»

Here is a list of the major wildfires in sky island ranges since 1994: Rattlesnake fire (Chiricahuas, 1994, 27,500 acres burned); Clark Peak fire (Pinalenos, 1996, 6,300 acres); Bullock fire (Catalinas, 2002, 30,000 acres); Aspen fire (Catalinas, 2003, 85,000 acres); Nuttall fire (Pinalenos, 2004, 29,000 acres); Florida fire (Santa Ritas, 2005, 23,000 acres).

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The most genetic diversity within these two lineages occurred in WTB populations in Western New Mexico and the Madrean Sky Island region of Arizona and New Mexico, where WTB is believed to be native.

Sky Island Alliance's Wilbor says there are also a few rugged mountain ranges, like the Baboquivari and Patagonia, that bisect the border where there's either no fencing, a few strings of barbed wire or vehicle barriers.

Last summer the Coronado National Forest adopted wildland fire use for the entire sky island system.

Human encroachment threatens these habitats, but global warming and drought may be the death knell for sky islands.

Moreover, recognised as the world's first Dark Sky Island in 2011, Sark's immaculate night skies are some of the finest in the continent for stargazing, so be sure to visit the local observatory.

But the most important difference between the two ranges is that the Rincons are the only sky island supervised entirely by the National Park Service.

Codename: Skywalker hoolock gibbon Name: Hoolock tianxing Compromised: January Known territory: Myanmar and southwestern China Physical characteristics: Downturned white eyebrows Notable skills / traits: ELITE STATUS: Tucked away in isolated mountains known as sky islands, these rare gibbons have taken careful tracking to find and identify.

Sky Island supports local farms and makes their products from organic whole foods free of gluten, wheat, dairy, soy and refined sugars.

A cool sky island wind snatches your breath away.

For environmentalists, it's a «sky island ecosystem» that hosts rare and altitude - sensitive species, including the wekiu bug found nowhere else in the world.

Conversely, if your work isn't a good fit with Sky Island, that doesn't mean it won't find a good home somewhere else.

This edaphic sky island holds the northern range extension of Sargent cypress (Cupressus sargentii).

Dark Day Interactive - is a small indie Development company, based in Australia and the United Kingdom, with past experience in the video game market, with the current release of Once Bitten, Twice Dead on PC, and iOS hits like Sky Island, the team has taken there past skills and knowledge from other projects and combined them into one tight company, answering to no major publishers, only making games they love, for the community and helped shape by the community.

He joined GGS in 2010, where he worked on Sky Island Adventures, and Once Bitten Twice Dead.

AIRHEART is a dieselpunk action game about a young woman, who flies her airplane and catches skyfish among beautiful sky islands.

Head to either the Wooded Kingdom or the Lake Kingdom (depending on which kingdom you visited first) to use its painting to reach the Floating Sky Island it Moon.

There's also Sky Island, which can be unlocked much later, but the majority of Castle Club's «career» mode is made up of three themed courses with one offline tournament each (as well as whatever online tournaments are running at the time — again, restricted to those courses).

Featured in Desert Sky Islands magazine, gated courtyard entry with carved cantera stone fountain and custom wrought iron front door with cantera surrounds leads into great room with soaring beamed ceilings, Versailles pattern travertine floors, glorious cantera stone fireplace and art niches.

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Today, the Tucson - based International Dark - Sky Association (IDA), which works to boost awareness of light pollution and its effects, recognized these qualities by designating Sark the world's first «dark sky island.»

As a result, most of the natural action in the sky islands takes place in the vertical dimension, including the action of wildfires.

Yet within the magical ring of Bear Wallow Spring (magical to the Apache who used to drink here), hip - high spruce and fir prepared to recolonize the peak of this sky island.

The Animas are a sky island system in New Mexico.

The prettiest approach to a sky island is along a flat highway through a yellow desert toward a blue mountain on the horizon.

Monsoonal rain in Arizona occurs in midsummer, when south winds draw moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and fling thunderheads and lightning against the rims of the sky islands.

Regular, modest doses of fire, scientists now say, keep the sky islands healthy.

If you check a tree at random, it's there, the sky island badge, the catface scar.

Hodges works for the Sky Island Alliance, a Tucson - based environmental group.

To him oaks are the «totem species» of the sky islands.

All of which points to the central paradox of fire in the sky islands: Big wildfires happen when small wildfires are put out.

For a contrast they show a section of younger wood from another sky island, the Huachucas, totally devoid of scars in the 20th century.

After sporadic logging began in the sky islands, the Forest Service nipped most fires in the bud.

Sky islands is the popular term for a dozen disconnected mountain ranges in southeastern Arizona.

The temperature at the base of the mountain was 100 degrees, not unusual for June in Arizona, but hail began to fall in the tiny wetlands called Bear Wallow Spring, at an elevation of 10,500 feet, on the tallest of the sky islands.

The mountaintops form what scientists call «sky islands» — little pockets of distinctive habitat that the animals further adapt to.

He points to a sky island 35 miles south.

The goal of this expedition with David Hodges was to study the vegetative zones of a sky island from the bottom up and to pull apart their interlocking, inflammable histories.

«A rule of thumb,» Swetnam says, «is that once or twice a decade, over 20 to 30 acres, a ground fire swept through the sky island pine forest.

These surface fires occurred at longer intervals in the heights of the sky islands — in the mixed conifers.

The region — called the Sky Islands — harbors more than 7,000 species, many of which struggle to cross human - made obstructions

«They're constantly following the rain patterns,» explains Scott Wilbor, conservation science director for the Sky Islands Alliance, a Tucson - based group.

A total of 49 mountainous miles remain free of any kind of border barrier in the Sky Island region, with about half of that in a single mountain range, according to a calculation provided by the Alliance.

The region includes the Sky Islands, named for the isolated mountain ranges that rise from the flats of the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts — an inland archipelago that sits primarily in Mexico but spills over the border.

More than 7,000 plant and animal species make their homes here, and more than half of the bird species found on the entire continent inhabit the Sky Islands.