Sky Islands Climate

Panoramic illustrated banner of the Sky Islands Climate site: a saguaro-dotted desert foreground rising through hazy mid-elevation ranges to twin forested peaks, with the site title and tagline overlaid

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  • Climate history of the Southwestern United States

    The climate history of the Southwestern United States extends back thousands of years, far beyond the region’s written historical record, which begins only a few hundred years ago with the earliest Spanish expeditions into the region in the late 1530s and 1540s (American Southwest Virtual Museum, 2019). Human societies have inhabited the region for thousands…