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Hudsonian life zone

Hudsonian life zone

[¦həd¦sō·nē·ən ′līf ‚zōn]
(ecology)
A zone comprising the climate and biotic communities of the northern portions of North American coniferous forests and the peaks of high mountains.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Prior to this specimen, the elevational range for this species had been 2,000-3,156 m, predominantly in the Canadian and Hudsonian life zones (Grinnell and Storer, 1924; Ingles, 1947; Williams, 1984; Hutterer, 2005).
Mount Lyell shrew (Sorex lyelli) in the Sierra Nevada, California, with comments on alpine records of Sorex
The 1.7 million -- acre Fort Apache Reservation, the place that White Mountain Ndee have called home since time immemorial, ranges from Hudsonian life zones and high-altitude cienegas at almost 11,500 feet, through more than 600,000 acres of commercial forest, descending via about eight hundred miles of perennial streams into the pinon-juniper woodland belt where most of the rapidly expanding population of about fourteen thousand White Mountain Apache tribal members live.
Reclaiming land and spirit in the western Apache homeland
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