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Al Carty retired from a California beach town to the high plains of New Mexico, where he roams the pinyon-juniper hills and writes about the thoughts that come tohim there.
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Above the sagebrush belt lies a woodland zone dominated by pinyon pine and juniper, similar to the pinyon-juniper woodland of the Colorado Plateau.
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Ecoregion 22 is similar to the Colorado Plateaus (20) to the north in having abundant pinyon-juniper woodland and deep canyons (e.g. the Grand Canyon).
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Nearly surrounded by forest covered mountains, the region is somewhat drier than the Northwestern Great Plains to the northeast and does not have the extensive cover of pinyon-juniper woodland found in the Colorado Plateaus to the south.
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The region is more elevated than the Wyoming Basin to the north and therefore contains a far greater extent of pinyon-juniper woodlands.
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Blackbrush is much more common than in Ecoregion 20c where pinyon-juniper woodland and sagebrush dominate.
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The montane zone extends over considerable areas on the high plateaus and mountains, but it is much smaller in area than the pinyon-juniper zone.
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Ponderosa pine is at lower elevations, pinyon-juniper below that, and grasslands are in the lowest areas.
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Shallow or stony soils occur along the rims of benches and minor escarpments and support pinyon-juniper woodland.
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Nearly surrounded by forest-covered mountains, the region is drier than the Northwestern Great Plains (43) to the northeast and does not have the extensive cover of pinyon-juniper woodland found in the Colorado Plateaus (20) to the south.
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