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The Commission's 1997 report, Ecological Regions of North America, provides a spatial framework that may be used by government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and academic researchers as a basis for risk analysis, resource management, and environmental study of the continent's ecosystems. [1]
Unwise land and resource use had caused the deer and trout populations to virtually disappear in the North Georgia mountains and Woody brought trout and deer back to the area. The trout were shipped to Gainesville, hauled across the narrow, dirt, mountain roads and eventually released in the streams .
The Springfield Plateau is the only Ozark Highland Level IV ecoregion within all four states. [1] The nearly level to rolling Springfield Plateau is underlain by cherty limestone of the Mississippian Boone Formation and Burlington Limestone; it is less rugged and wooded than Ecoregions 38, 39b, and 39c, and lacks the Ordovician dolomite and limestone of Ecoregions 39c and 39d.
Throughout North Georgia, average temperatures can change drastically at elevations of 700 feet (210 m) or more above sea level. At these elevations the average summer (from May 31 to September 30) temperature is about 80 °F or 26.7 °C during the afternoon and around 67 °F or 19.4 °C during the morning.
A rural Ozarks scene. Phelps County, Missouri The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, as well as a small area in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]
Mineral Bluff is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located in Fannin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. [2] Its population was 223 as of the 2020 census . The community is situated 6 miles (10 km) northeast of the city of Blue Ridge , the county seat , 80 miles (130 km) east of Chattanooga, Tennessee , and 100 miles (160 ...
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U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.