Eastern Mojave Vegetation
Tom Schweich
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Eastern Mojave Vegetation
| About "Ecological Sites Along Highways" |
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Tom Schweich |
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| Several years ago, I posted a question on "sci.bio.ecology" asking about interesting ecological locations along U. S. Highway 50 in Nevada. I did this because I was planning a trip to Utah, crossing Nevada on U. S. 50 for the first time. I wanted to know about places to stop where ecological principles were illustrated, or ecological studies had been completed. I define "ecological" loosely, to cover all sciences from geology, through botany and zoology, to anthropology. | |
| Several people responded, giving mostly advice to stop at Great Basin National Park or recommending the Toiyabe Range. | |
| Having completed the trip, I wanted to put something back onto the World Wide Web. The result should be open-ended, in that it was easy to modify, and organized the way people would experience a trip through the area, i.e., location order within highway or road. The theory is: someone taking a trip through the area could download the HTML to a laptop and use a Web browser to follow the highways and ecological sites. | |
| Well ... that's the theory, anyway ... | |
| Here's what I've built to date. It's mostly just a skeleton of highways I've traveled, without many ecological notes. You'll find a few ecological notes in the files. I plan to add the ecological notes over time. It seems like I'll have to run a search in Biosis, locate any studies located in Nevada, and then add a reference to the Highway files. | |
| So far, the exercise has been useful to me to learn Nevada geography. I have formed no feelings about the usefulness of this approach in learning about the ecology of a region. Try it out and let me know what you think. E-Mail me at tom@schweich.com. I'll be happy to post your comments, or input about ecological sites. Be sure to note whether I may post your comments when you send them. | |
| If you have a question or a comment you may write to me at: tomas@schweich.com I sometimes post interesting questions in my FAQ, but I never disclose your full name or address. |
Date and time this article was prepared: 12/9/2024 7:21:04 PM |