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1 | Ehleringer, James R. | Plant adaptation in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau | Adaptive features of plants of the Great Basin are reviewed. The combination of cold winters and an arid to semiarid precipitation regime results in the distinguishing features of the vegetation in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. The primary effects of these climatic features arise from how t... | Plant adaptation; Great Basin; Colorado Plateau; Cold deserts | 1992 | |
2 | Firmage, Edwin B. | MX:democracy, religion and the rule of law--my journey | This is my story of the defeat of the MX missile's proposed basing mode in the Great Basin of the West. Where to begin? I'm reflecting on cancer and MX at this moment. About journeys where we would not go but do. Beginnings are not easy, though the first verses of Genesis and John make them sound so... | Missile Experimental; Great Basin; Cold War | 2004 |