The 4 Major Deserts of North America
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2020
- North America is home to 4 major deserts, all mostly located in southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. They are as follows:
1. Great Basin Desert
2. Mojave Desert
3. Chihuahuan Desert
4. Sonoran Desert
Intro music from Estun Buh "Mountain Spirit"
Music during video from Chris Haugen "Morning Mandolin"
The Sonoran desert by far is probably the most beautiful desert of them all. Especially during the perfect times of the year. So much color and fragrance. Springtime especially.
Agreed! Spring and in good monsoon years.
Except it’s so hot usually 100 degrees Fahrenheit 38 celcius
From what i have seen, i couldn't agree more. Hope to visit it one day!
@@Ramneet12 indeed. With a great positive has to come with a negative. I do love here I am aware of all the beauty and the heat. Lol
@@Ramneet12brother it’s HOTTER than that it usually depends on elevation but I live in a high elevation Sonoran desert and I seen it rise to 114 F
i traveled from Phoenix to Nogales in the early 90's, i was amazed by the beauty of the desert. it's one of my favourite places on Earth. thanks for the video, loved it :)
I love the Sonoran Desert. There are so many amazing species of cacti and wildlife. The desert has such stunning beauty that you don't find anywhere else. 😊👍
I have traveled to the 4 desert’s and was awestruck by the beauty of each desert. If you have the time I highly recommend that you do so
I love the desert. I know the Mojave best. Great video.
OMG I had no idea that deserts could be so beautiful !
Thank you for this informative survey of the deserts. The photos were stunning, and the music, very calming. I have never been drawn to the desert, but I think recently, I am beginning to see its beauty, and I look forward to visiting it. Thank you!
Very educational. Thank you for taking the time.
Randy Hanlon thank you
Great work, I'll be referring people to this video to help them better understand AZ!
Andrew Pisher thanks brother. We should collaborate sometime
Short. Sweet. And to the point. Great Video!!. Been thru Death Valley. Loved it. The Bottle House, @ many ghost towns arpund. Wonder if BOTTLE house is STILL a public stop, in Death Valley? Want to return to the vast beauty 😘@ majesty of the West asap.🌵🌵
Loved Bodey. Placerville. Carson City 👍👍😍to name a few cool places to check out
Great Basin: Cottonwoods line the streams and small rivers. Large aspen groves at higher elevations. Second largest elk in the 1900's was hunted in central NV. Eastern Sierra front cast a rain shadow making for spectacular views and unique Sierra Nevada to desert ecosystem.
Thank you for this. We are doing a desert unit in our homeschool science class and this was very handy. We live in the Mojave Desert, but know almost nothing about it. Thank you.
So glad it helped. It’s amazing how different your experience of the desert is when you learn more about it. There’s a story taking place in the wilderness. Thanks Lorena.
This channel is so helpful thank you man.
Thank you for the feedback. Motivates me to keep going
Thank you.
Forgot to mention the small number of jaguars which call the Sonoran desert home
I made an entire video about jaguars in Arizona. Check it out
Such a cool video! Thank you…!
William Culberson well I wonder who I got it from? 😂😂😂
Lived in Arizona, 1965-1970.
Miss the Superstitions Mountains, the wildlife, eagles, mountain lions, roadrunners, etc.
On my UA-cam channel I have a picture of some cactus I rescued and later gifted to my mother. I think there are called Mammirilla Ziona cactus they where laying in a cluster on dirt road at upper Sycamore on the west side of the I-87 "Beeline Highway".
Thank you for making this, could you make a video on mexican black kingsnakes in arizona
Based on your channel name it sounds like you'd be the person to spearhead a video about kingsnakes. I'd help you promote it. Thanks for watching this.
I consider the Colorado Plateau as a 5th North American desert even though it has forest and the drier parts of it just barely get enough rain and winter snow fall to tecnicly be considered semi arid rather than arid but some consider it just a more eastern extension of the Great Basin Desert.
I agree with you actually. It’s not technically the Sonoran Desert but they don’t attribute northern Arizona as part of the Great Basin either. It’s definitely mostly a desert
I've also noticed that on most climatic maps of North America the Colorado Plateau is the only desert or semi arid region in which all 4 of the other deserts border it's region at least at some point.
@@jaredtaylor1518 That's a really good point. It's like a convergence zone for all deserts, hence making it a desert too.
LOL! The hard winter freezing part at 3:53 was just the white sands national park, it's just gypsum not snow lol.
I was just showing shots of the Chihuahuan desert, which includes White Sands, NM. It wasn’t meant to be a snowy illusion but I can see where you’re coming from
It would be cool to see some of this land reclaimed by forest.
Let’s do it man! We’ve started growing mesquite trees from seed so we can start guerrilla planting in local desert areas around Phoenix
nice
Do deers have to take shits a lot when they're in the desert or is it just cuz there's no water? i went hiking once and there was mad deer shit there lol. Peace n love y'all
Peter Culpo ha ha I think the more likely scenario is that in higher precipitation areas there are more ground cover plants blocking your view from the poop. In the desert you have much more visible access to the ground which in turn means more poop sightings. And let’s face it...it’s all about the poop.
Most civilized deer use the range potties distributed by the government and no longer shit profusely on the desert floor.
I understand the most common plant of all the deserts is creosote and it wasn't mentioned in this video. Is this true?
I’ll have to double check but my guess is that in the Sonoran and Mojave desert, that is probably true. Bursage might be a contender for the number one spot as well.
I noticed when I’m traveling from New Mexico back to California. The deserts have a different look. New Mexico is full of shrubs and yuccas , Arizona is full of Cactus, and California is more flat full of shrubs and Joshua trees.
Good eye Joe.
Which of the four deserts include the Death Valley in California?
Mohave
Or snow--we in the N NV Great Basin desert get way most of our precip as snow.
jack prier do you get a rainy season during any other time of year?
@@keeparizonawild156 some years but not all we get heavy rains in August and early September but true that mostly get mid to late autumn, winter, and early spring snow fall as our precipitation.
@@keeparizonawild156 at least in the northern and central Great Basin. The southern great basin is kinda a transition zone between Mojave and great basin and weather wise behaves like Mojave desert some years or like great basin other years as far as temperatures and precipitation goes.
I like the mohave desert best followed by the colorado semi desert with its buttes, mesas and plateaus.
I love the Joshua Trees of the Mohave. They’re the quintessential species of the Mohave
@@keeparizonawild156 Have you seen them early in the year when they blossom 🌼?
Sonoran desert is my favorite with the lush green terrain and the majestic saguaro cactus.
Sonoran is the most lush and pretty....Saguaro is the icon of the Southwest...
What desert is at 0:12
The Columbia basin in Southeastern Washington basin is all desert
More so Plains and grasslands
The map on the thumbnail is pretty inaccurate in terms of boundaries.
We keep it wild around here
Mapas físico indican que casi todo el centro y centro norte de USA no son zonas de gran calidad de pastura, el país no está lo suficientemente desarrollado en desdesertificar esas zonas
Noted and Mexico city used to be a swamp so did New Orleans.
And Los Vegas.
Who are you? Im here
There's 4 deserts in the US
But the Sonoran is the coolest
Couldn’t agree more
The Mohave is still my favorite. Sonoran is cool as heck. And I live in the Great Basin.
The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution.
Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.
A better future is possible,
I’ve been meaning to respond to you for awhile. It’s definitely an interesting idea. One of the big problems with desalination is what to do with all the salt afterwards. Honestly though if they get better at it why not just supply California with that water and then cut them off of the Colorado River. It would be a far cheaper project not having to come so far inland and that might give the Colorado the relief it needs. I recently saw a video about nuclear desalination plants too. I like your idea though of recharging aquifers. This would be terraforming in its biggest way in our history. If the oceans are rising then why not use it. There would be major implications to this I’m sure but definitely something worth pursuing.
@@keeparizonawild156 Thank you. Yes I think you are right that the first step or first phase of such a project would probably be for California to become water and energy independent. Relieving as you say a great strain on the Colorado river and the other states of the west that depend on it. But after that certainly I think it would be a great positive to replenish the aquifers and "terraform" inland drought stricken regions. We know human actions have caused desertification in areas around the globe. Why are we not capable of doing the opposite. And as you say, sea levels are rising them why not take advantage of the extra water by moving it from the sea to the dry inland regions.
So, West USA more Mountainous then East USA
Definitely yes. The Rockies in the west are newer mountains than the Appalachian mountains of the east, which are super old.
The puny East coast "mountains" would be classified as "hills" in West, or possibly "gopher mounds".
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I live out here away from humans , I deal with the heat because that's what keeps a lot of humans far away . So quiet. So peaceful . Trump Country . No crime . 2nd amendment rights . FREEDOM 🇺🇸
The irony is that Trump has rarely ever spent time in the country but that’s neither here nor there. I commend you for your love of the peace and quiet out there, and most of all the freedom to be a sovereign human being.
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Im from europe and never seen a desert but i wanna go there one day and eat burgers and shoot .50 guns
You got the right idea. That’s what we do on our free time in AZ
Where are you from in Europe? I hope you can come over some time and enjoy the vast desert!
Most Americans never saw a desert either. Myself included. I'm going to change this though. My whole life has been on the Atlantic seaboard and surrounding states.
Deserts can be hot but they are always cool 😎
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