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Although daytime can reach extremely high temperatures, the night can get very very cold. Vegetation does not grow very tall so the desert biome can only accommodate small animals, rodents, and reptiles.

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Location of Temperate Deserts Around the World

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Location of Temperate Deserts Around the World

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In Noth America... the Midwest, including south to Texas and North into Canada.

In Asia... the Gobi desert in China, tropical savannah

Sputh America... argentina, chile, coastal range

Really only around central latitudes**

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1. There are a lot of parks in deserts. These parks are heavily traveled, and oftentimes, people drive off the road and onto the sensitive desert soil. Since it is so dry, it is easy to displace and disrupt the sandy soil in the desert.
2. Temperate deserts are remote areas, perfect for testing of potentially harmful substances. The government uses temperate deserts often for nuclear testing and other military endeavors, including training. Any human development in the desert is harmful, but especially this type, which is chemical and traffic heavy.
3. The construction of pipelines in deserts is particularly stressful for the environment. People that live in cities outside of the desert need water, oil, and other resources that are most easily transported through the desert. When pipelines are constructed the desert soil is disrupted, the animals must relocate, and water is taken from the already dry biome.

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A temperate desert is an area of land where little precipitation occurs. Less than 10% annually. Living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. Temperate desert temperatures are high in the summer and low in the winter.

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From February until April, gathering wild onions is big event for many members of Five Civilized tribes in Oklahoma. Wild onion dinners are the fruits of their labor. The dinners are traditionally held in homes, community centers and churches. Wild onions are sometimes prepared with scrambled eggs (although not always) and poke sallet.

Some dinners have been served in the same place for nearly a century-like Haikey Chapel in Tulsa. On a recent Saturday, there was a line about a hundred deep waiting to eat wild onions with scrambled eggs, salt pork, beans, corn, fry bread and grape dumplings. Some have attended this dinner since they were kids, others were in line for the first time. Many said it was the cooking that kept them coming back.

Haikey Chapel has a long history in the community and many descendants of the original family attend church here-one was even doing the cooking on Saturday-Sunrise Tiger Ross. As she sauteed onions alongside her sister and cousin in a tent near the church she said, "Hopefully our grandmothers are happy with what we're serving today."

Below, watch a short film from Mvskoke Media documenting Muscogee (Creek) woman Jamie Rolland and her mother Joanne Lowe picking, cleaning, and cooking tafvmpvce (wild onions) as a custom and family tradition:

Listen below for more about Haikey Chapel and wild onion dinners:

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From February until April, gathering wild onions is big event for many members of Five Civilized tribes in Oklahoma. Wild onion dinners are the fruits of their labor. The dinners are traditionally held in homes, community centers and churches. Wild onions are sometimes prepared with scrambled eggs (although not always) and poke sallet.

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Jack Rabbit: can eat cacti (one of few desert plants), reproduces and matures quickly, runs fast to evade predators
Roadrunner: eats a wide range of different things (insects, plants, snakes, etc), runs fast to escape predators, can also fly
Gazelle: requires little water, runs quickly to escape predators, lives in the Gobi desert

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Three dominant plant species of the temperate desert are wild onions, the goyo plant, and cistanche.  The wild onions are used for medicine and food. The goyo plant absorbs carbon dioxide at night instead of the day and they have extra long roots allowing them to reach more abundant water sources.