Saving Canada's only desert

Re:Saving Canada's only desert by happyslobro on Sunday August 14, 2016 @06:29AM (#12285079)

Our only desert? There is a small desert in Yukon, as well: Carcross Desert. At least by my definition of a desert: wind blown sand dunes with little patches of hardy shrubs and scrawny trees.

Maybe the fact that it formed from a lake bed makes it not a real desert?

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Re:Saving Canada's only desert by jccalhoun on Sunday August 14, 2016 @10:02AM (#12285586)

According to wikipedia, neither of them are actually deserts. The Carcross Desert is really a sand dune and the Okanagan Desert is really a shrub-steppe.

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Re:Saving Canada's only desert by randlet on Sunday August 14, 2016 @08:38AM (#12285356)

I knew about the Okanogan but not Carcross. Looks like it's not a 'real' desert though[1] (too humid).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcross_Desert

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Re:Saving Canada's only desert by codesterling on Sunday August 14, 2016 @08:35AM (#12285350)

Sounds like some swaths in Saskatchewan. Even the badlands in Alberta has areas like that. I wonder what the distinctions are?

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Re:Saving Canada's only desert by ommunist on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:38PM (#12286496)

I was wrong. I admit that. Saskatchewan does not have Lael Parrott - Professor of Sustainability.

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Re:Saving Canada's only desert by ommunist on Sunday August 14, 2016 @09:24AM (#12285477)

The difference is that in Saskatchewan the is no some son of the second level Environment Canada manager, who needs a comfortable internship to enter the System.

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