Talk:List of North American deserts

message: I thought about making a list like this some time ago, but unlike other geo features, there are actually very few named deserts, and it seemed that a non-redir list of deserts sectioned by continents would be more than enough. Stan 21:49, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening comment 

message: O.k., I realize this sounds ignorant but I recall seeing an article about a mini-desert in the eastern U.S., I think it was in the New England area or somewhere in Virginia. I am wondering if it was just a man-made tourist attraction or if there really is a mini-desert micro-climate in the eastern U.S.A. , or if someone just played a joke on me. Any response would be appreciated and if anyone has a link that would be great. Thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.133.42.16 (talk) 02:23, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Eastern Desert?

message: :The description in the article explains how it is a different type of desert, because of the Pacific(humidity ( + winds?) ).  The East side of the Peninsular Ranges are also a desert related to the "Sonoran", but possibly should be listed differently on this List of N.Amer. page.  Maybe a Baja Calif listing: and what are the lower deserts for Baja California Sur. The Baja Sur page mentions the "Vizcaino desert" in the north part of Baja Sur.....(I'll make a change on the article page to see if it is agreeable.).. --MichaelMcAnnisYuma,AZ--Mmcannis 05:36, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Baja California desert]] and ([[Yuha Desert]])

message: Dropped Moab desert (redlink, non-notable). Propose deleting the redlinks in Baja Calif, unless someone wants to write stubs. Pete Tillman (talk) 15:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List Cleanup

message: Do these really belong here? I notice we've picked up another one. Move elsewhere? Delete? --Pete Tillman (talk) 00:32, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the thing is we call them deserts, even though most are only semi-arid; Carcross I've not seen referred to before as a desert - I've seen Carcross Dunes - and despite Osoyoos' claims to desert status, ecologically it's shrub steppe, albeit with ultra-low rainfall and particular species; but soare other areas in BC that at least look like deserts; and in some cases there are true pocket deserts with less than rainfall under 5 in, even under  2 in, but generally those are not much more than a square mile or two and haven't been really named or charted, just observed; the environs of downtown Lillooet and teh adjoining banks of the Fraser is well down towards 1 inch a year, or used to be before claimte shifts changed teh wind patterns (intense rainshadow because of immediate high terrain on the windward side).  There's also a new "promotional desert" like Osoyoos' marketing game near Kamloops - the Copper Desert Country, which certainly, again, looks like a desert and this or that square mile of it might even qualify in terms of rainfall.  Parts of the Palliser Triangle in the Praries ahve also been called desert, and somewhere I saw a ref to Point Pelee being a deesert, of having one at its tip; quite a stretch when you're used to thinking of the Gobi and Mojave, huh?  There's also arctic deserts, like the Antarctic "dry valleys", but I'm not familiar with their locations or names.  Most named "deserts" in Canada, or things htat have been called desert, are only semi-arid.  See Talk:Nk'mip Desert, also.....Skookum1 (talk) 02:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There's now  (WikiProject Canadian Geography) where it might be worth taking this up, I havent' used it much otehr than adding its switches.... also, perhaps, in terms of definitions of "desert"Skookum1 (talk) 02:44, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Canadian "deserts"

message: I've tried to reorganize the list to make it more useful & informative. See what you think. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 00:48, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Still working on it. More to do! Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 05:31, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup & revision

message: I cut these during periodic maintenance:
*Diamond A Desert (NV), doesn't exist per Google except as a dude ranch name -- spam?
*Carson Desert, variant name for Carson Sink, unneeded duplication. --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:02, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More cleanup 

message: The Great Basin Desert – located within the Great Basin, it is commonly mistaken as the largest desert in North America due to confusion between the area of the Great Basin and the area of the Great Basin Desert. even on the Wikipedia article Great Basin Desert.  Have added a fact tag.  cheers  --Earlypsychosis (talk) 07:09, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  common mistake on [[Great Basin Desert]] 

message: At the moment, two very contrasting views are presented on wikipedia in different articles. In the article Saguaro National Park is a very part of the Sonoran Desert. More, the saguaro cactus is typical of this desert, as it is also present in the Mexican part of the Sonoran Desert (e.g. in the state of Sonora). In Sonoran Desert, there is a picture of the Saguaro NP in the information box. Even in this article (List of North Am...), there is the Ansel Adams picture of a Saguaro cactus in the Saguaro NP (eastern or central part of Southern Arizona).
In contrast to this, in this article (List of North Am...) the Saguaro National Park is classified as Arizona/New Mexico Plateau and as a "cold desert". The altitude of the Saguaro National Park is comparable to the Californian "High Desert" (i.e. the high part of the Mojave Desert). In Sonoran Desert, the area of the Saguaro National Park is also not listed as a subregion (in line with the listing in this article). --Wormke-Grutman (talk) 07:49, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The Saguaro National Park is not mentioned at all in this article, so I can't see how this article can be classifying it as  part of the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau.  I've made a longer reply to your identical question over at Talk:Sonoran_Desert#Saguaro_National_Park:_Sonoran_Desert_or_not.3F. —RP88 (talk) 15:44, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saguaro National Park: Sonoran Desert or not? 

message: It's a cool picture but what happened to the great lakes?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:859B:A900:F10E:F297:A721:7B31 (talk) 16:19, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphic of the locations 

message: In our description of the map, we say it's a list of ecoregions, but the list is a mix of ecoregions names and desert names. I want to make this consistent, but don't know which way to go. Sancho 05:18, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder about this in general. What makes the different deserts, different deserts? They seem to be connected, so they're only different deserts because they are different bassins and have different names, but in reality they are one single desert region, as much a single desert as the Sahara is. I mean, why are the Mojave, Sonoran and the Baja California deserts not considered one desert? Judging by the map, the Chihuahuan desert is a separate desert, but all the others seem to be four or five separate deserts, three hot, two cold. 109.59.36.62 (talk) 17:04, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ecoregions or deserts