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basin range

basin range

[′bās·ən ‚rānj]
(geology)
A mountain range characteristic of the Great Basin in the western United States and formed by a faulted and tilted block of strata.
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The following year, he published an article and met with local advocates to advance the idea of a national park in the Great Basin Range. When Darwin Lambert--a writer, natural historian and Great Basin native joined NPCA's board of trustees in 1958, the organization gained a steadfast champion for the park and officially endorsed a proposal for its creation, citing the locale's exceptional natural resources and scenic value.
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The estimate for trade and local and regional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa alone is >1 billion kg per year (8), and estimates for consumption in the Amazon Basin range from 67 to 164 million kilograms annually (9,10); for mammals alone, this consumption consists of 6.4 million to 15.8 million individual animals (11).
In contrast, in the Raft River Mountains in northwestern Utah (Great Basin range where Tamiasciurus is absent; [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED]), nutcrackers harvested over 90% of the cones, and few limber pine seeds fell to the ground (Lanner and Vander Wall 1980; S.
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In particular, they're doing that to develop a new model specifically for predicting growth of wildland grasses in the Great Basin ranges of Utah, Nevada, and parts of Idaho.
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