Orwi@programming.dev to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days ago‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoeswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down12
arrow-up151arrow-down1external-link‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoeswww.theguardian.comOrwi@programming.dev to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·edit-213 days agoLos Angeles is not a desert and never was. It was a vast region covered by wetlands prior to colonization. It may be surrounded by deserts to the north and east but it is not a desert. https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/the-lost-wetlands-of-los-angeles
minus-squareChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·13 days agoAnd savanna. Specifically oak savanna. Grasslands turned to the most productive farms in the nation.
Los Angeles is not a desert and never was. It was a vast region covered by wetlands prior to colonization. It may be surrounded by deserts to the north and east but it is not a desert. https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/the-lost-wetlands-of-los-angeles
And savanna. Specifically oak savanna. Grasslands turned to the most productive farms in the nation.
Yep, and chaparral.