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Old 07-09-2010, 10:46 AM
 
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Old 07-09-2010, 02:54 PM
 
Location: Northeast Texas
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Prairie, by definition, is not desert. There is a clear difference between grassland and desert, so it's not really a subjective thing.
I didn't say Prairie is a desert...

I said it looks like a desert. The map claims its a prairie which it's true. I'm just saying it looks like a desert.

I'm aware that I said "It is indeed a prairie and farmland". I was referring to the map.
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Old 04-05-2016, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Approximations are US 83 as the line between humid and semi arid, furthermore areas east of I-45/US 75 are quite forrested, and semi arid changes to arid approx west of US 285
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Old 04-06-2016, 10:03 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Average Annual Percipitation http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/pcpn/tx.gif

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Old 04-07-2016, 10:19 AM
 
Location: Kingwood
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Crockett.. you come into Crocket on 21 or 7 from the East driving through rainforest, leave out the west side in arid desert.
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Old 04-10-2016, 05:40 PM
 
Location: The Dirty South.
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Fort Stockton exactly.
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Old 04-22-2016, 02:53 AM
 
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To me, San Antonio is a real dividing line. The eastern edges of the city are very green and forested, and resemble the landscape of the "south." The western edges of the city are more barren and scrubby and look more "western."

In South Texas, away from the irrigated areas, there is just rather flat, uniform brush. Arid, but not quite desert.
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Old 04-22-2016, 06:43 AM
 
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I lived in TX for 44 years. I have driven all over the entire state. None of it looks like "desert" to me, not like the area around Phoenix or Tucson, or Las Vegas Nev.

I know the technical description of "desert" depends on amount of rainfall. To me, "desert" is when the land has large areas free of vegetation except small shrubby plants or such, with bare ground in between. That exists almost nowhere in TX. Most of western TX is grassland, with enough rain that there is very little exposed bare earth.

The dry areas of TX look like "dry prairie" to me, not "desert". Anyone who expects to see big mesas, saguaro cacti, and creosote bushes in Texas has been watching too many movies. Just like people who think they'll see cattle drives and horseback riders passing through Mesquite, Texas (a heavily built-up suburb of a million-population city).
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Old 04-22-2016, 07:53 AM
 
Location: Sacramento Mtns of NM
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Most of western TX is grassland, with enough rain that there is very little exposed bare earth.

The dry areas of TX look like "dry prairie" to me, not "desert".
Ummm...ever heard of the "Chihuahuan Desert?" More to the point, have you ever actually been there?

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Old 04-22-2016, 08:44 AM
 
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Yes, I have. Big Bend is one of my favorite places. Very few from out of the state have any idea of what or where it is. Most people who ask these kinds of questions imagine that just west of Shreveport, everything starts looking like Monument Valley or the Sahara. I get kind of tired of that image, along with certain other misconceptions.

To me even Big Bend looks more scrubby and semi-arid than the regions around Phoenix or Las Vegas.

I agree that the technical description of desert fits that area.
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