PDF The Organ Mountain Range, Its History and Its Orchids

The Organ Mountain Range, Its History and Its Orchids

Organ Mountains

The Organ Mountains is a botanically diverse mountain range in New Mexico, with approximately 870 vascular plant species. Several of these, including the Organ Mountains evening primrose (Oenothera organensis) and smooth figwort (Scrophularia laevis), are endemic to the mountain range and occur only in small, scattered populations.

Organ Mountain : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering

(0 avaliações) sinopse: A vegetação de restinga, por estar localizada no litoral, tem sua conservação constantemente ameaçada por diversas pressões antrópicas negativas. Aliadas a acelerada destruição deste ecossistema temos a perda das informações de como as populações, que ali vivem, utilizam os recursos naturais, dentre eles, as plantas.

List of mountain ranges of Oregon

There are at least 50 named mountain ranges in the U.S. state of Oregon.Many of these ranges extend into the neighboring states of California, Idaho, Nevada, and Washington.Elevations and coordinates are from the U.S. Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System, unless otherwise indicated.

Organ Mountains in New Mexico

The Organ Mountains, a small and rugged 9000 foot high, 32 million year old range in south central New Mexico just east of Las Cruces, have long drawn the adventurous into the rocky folds and crevices of their steep granitic and rhyolite slopes.

The Monument Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument

Rocks that were once a practice ground for the Apollo astronauts still shelter Gambels and Scaled quail, mountain lion, foxes, desert mule deer and javelina. Despite this abundance of wildlands, wildlife, and natural beauty, these lands are under constant threat from a wide range of modern day activities.