Comments on: Forest, Prairie, and Desert https://vividmaps.com/forest-prairie-and-desert/ Maps that explain the World Thu, 17 Aug 2023 20:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chaplin https://vividmaps.com/forest-prairie-and-desert/#comment-2035 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:22:56 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=17119#comment-2035 In reply to Alex.

Run Forest, run!

]]> By: Alex E https://vividmaps.com/forest-prairie-and-desert/#comment-2034 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:21:33 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=17119#comment-2034 In reply to Alex.

The Chicagoland area has been taken over by towns with Forest, Park, and Lake in the name. At least we manage to sound all natural and outdoorsy, I guess.

]]> By: Alex https://vividmaps.com/forest-prairie-and-desert/#comment-1989 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:21:01 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=17119#comment-1989 I assume this is cities / County / municipalities named something something forest, and not actual forests? Mainly because I don’t see the Mark Twain National Forest marked on the map

]]> By: Chaplin https://vividmaps.com/forest-prairie-and-desert/#comment-2038 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:19:48 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=17119#comment-2038 In reply to Alex.

I’m in right now.

]]> By: Alex https://vividmaps.com/forest-prairie-and-desert/#comment-2042 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:18:44 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=17119#comment-2042 In reply to Alex.

You mean OA?

]]> By: Alex https://vividmaps.com/forest-prairie-and-desert/#comment-2031 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:17:42 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=17119#comment-2031 This nicely illustrates the prairie peninsula that extended eastward into Illinois and Indiana, with fingers of isolated stretches into Michigan and Ohio. Likewise, one can easily make out the Black Belt prairie of Mississippi and Alabama.

]]> By: Chaplin https://vividmaps.com/forest-prairie-and-desert/#comment-2040 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:15:55 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=17119#comment-2040 In reply to Alex.

Both places have names derived from French. The French explorer, Champlain, named MDI as the island of deserted mountains, meaning bare mountains, as most of MDI’s mountains are not forested. What’s the story of of Lac Vieux Desert?

]]> By: Alex https://vividmaps.com/forest-prairie-and-desert/#comment-2016 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:14:33 +0000 https://vividmaps.com/?p=17119#comment-2016 TIL of Mount Desert Island, Maine and Lac Vieux Desert, Wisconsin. Thanks!

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