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Escarpments
Ecoregion
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Colorado Plateau
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The Escarpments ecoregion is characterized by extensive, deeply-dissected, cliff-bench complexes that descend dramatically from Ecoregion 20c or in Utah from the Wasatch Mountains of Ecoregion 19. Local relief can be as great as 3000 feet. Ecoregion 20e
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Plants
Utah Juniper
Juniperus osteosperma (species),
“Bigberry Juniper”
46
Observations
JAN - DEC
Scotch Cottonthistle
Onopordum acanthium (species),
“Cotton Thistle”, “Scotch Thistle”
40
Observations
JAN - DEC
Great Basin Bristlecone Pine
Pinus longaeva (species),
“Bristlecone Pine”, “Intermountain Bristlecone Pine”
32
Observations
JAN - DEC
Indian Ricegrass
Eriocoma cuspidata (species),
“Indian Mountain Ricegrass”, “Mountain-Rice”
32
Observations
JAN - DEC
Broom Snakeweed
Gutierrezia sarothrae (species)
29
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Animals
Mule Deer
Odocoileus hemionus (species),
“Black-Tailed Deer”, “Cedros Island Black-Tailed Deer”, “Cedros Island Mule Deer”
41
Observations
JAN - DEC
Sceloporus tristichus
SPECIES
34
Observations
JAN - DEC
Rock Squirrel
Otospermophilus variegatus (species)
29
Observations
JAN - DEC
Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel
Callospermophilus lateralis (species)
21
Observations
JAN - DEC
Uinta Chipmunk
Tamias umbrinus (species)
18
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Birds
Common Raven
Corvus corax (species),
“Raven”, “Northern Raven”
7,126
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Robin
Turdus migratorius (species)
4,483
Observations
JAN - DEC
Spotted Towhee
Pipilo maculatus (species)
4,042
Observations
JAN - DEC
Woodhouse's Scrub Jay
Aphelocoma woodhouseii (species)
3,824
Observations
JAN - DEC
Dark-Eyed Junco
Junco hyemalis (species)
3,685
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Insects
Hetaerina vulnerata
SPECIES ·
“Canyon Rubyspot”
7
Observations
JAN - DEC
Queen
Danaus gilippus (species),
“Queen Butterfly”
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Hippodamia convergens
SPECIES ·
“Convergent Lady Beetle”
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Dynastes Grantii
Dynastes granti (species)
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Orthops kalmii
SPECIES
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Taxonomy
Region
49
Ecoregion
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Ecoregion
Escarpments
Escarpments
Escarpments
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