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• s  somewhat arid
  a semiarid region with little annual rainfall

• Where others saw semiarid desert populated by Chumash Indians -- Los Angeles was then little more than a bedroom suburb of the Mojave -- he saw season attendance of three million .
• That the West is a semiarid region subject to episodic droughts has been understood for some time.
• Deep mining is expensive and dangerous and stripmining scars the land, especially in the semiarid West.

News & Articles

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• Understanding Plant Movement In Dry Climates
  Michael Harper for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online New research shows that greater plant density allows more water to seep into the ground. This means that people living in dry climates where water is a limited resource could do well to plant dense patches of vegetation to allow more water into the ground. This research also explains why plants in semiarid and dry climates often grow in ...
  Aug. 30, 2013 - redOrbit