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	Sky island - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sky islands are mountains in ranges isolated by valleys in which other ecosystems are located.
		The best known examples of sky islands are the Madrean sky islands at the northern end of the Sierra Madre Occidental in New Mexico, Arizona, Chihuahua and Sonora on the United States-Mexico border.
		Other sky islands of note are the Great Basin montane forests of the United States' Great Basin, the Tepuis of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana, and in Africa.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sky_island (189 words)

	Southwestern Sky Islands Ecosystems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The "sky islands" of Arizona and New Mexico in the southwestern United States form a unique complex of about 27 mountain ranges whose boundaries, at their lowest elevation, are desert scrub, grasslands, or oak woodlands (Figs.
		Nevertheless, the cross-border management of sky islands is important for such tasks as reintroduction of the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), maintenance of disjunct populations of rare plant species, and migration of the Mexican pronghorn (Antilocarpa americana mexicana), if it still occurs.
		The sky islands are the most diverse U.S. area for mammals; some 90 native mammals inhabit the area from the chaparral community to higher elevations; at least 6 are endemic subspecies.
	www.propertyrightsresearch.org /articles5/southwestern_sky_islands_ecosyst.htm (2569 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mountain
		Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five volcanic peaks that together form the Island of Hawaii.
		Isostasy is a term used in Geology to refer to the state of gravitational equilibrium between the Earths lithosphere and asthenosphere such that the tectonic plates float at an elevation which depends on their thickness and density.
		A volcano is a geological landform (usually a mountain) where magma (rock of the Earths interior made molten or liquid by extremely high temperatures along with a reduction in pressure and/or the introduction of water or other volatiles) erupts through the surface of the planet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mountain (2532 words)

	Sky Islands - Wildlands Project
		The Sky Islands region of southeast Arizona, southwest New Mexico and northern Mexico is uniquely located at the convergence of four great ecoregions: the northern, temperate Rocky Mountains; the southern, subtropical Sierra Madre Occidental; the lower-elevation Sonoran Desert to the west; and the higher elevation Chihuahuan Desert to the East.
		The Sky Islands Wildlands Network Conservation Plan is a prescription for restoring degraded ecosystems by connecting important core wildlands areas to one another via wildlife movement linkages.
		The Sky Islands Wildlands Network is now being implemented on the ground through the efforts of a broad-based network of conservationisits, citizens, scientists, land managers, ranchers, hunters, wildlife enthusiasts, and outdoor recreationists.
	wildlandsproject.com /cms/page1111.cfm (350 words)

	Sky Islands
		These islands are often widely separated from each other by many miles of dry and hot desert with many species of cactus and arid adapted plants.
		The islands themselves, rising to nine or 10 thousand feet, are wetter, cooler, and have lush vegetation zones from oak and juniper up through pines, to fir and sometimes spruce at the top.
		Because each island is ecologically isolated, some species cannot easily move from one island to another (for example plants, lizards, non-flying insects, and small mammals).
	www.friendsofmaderacanyon.com /SkyIslands.htm (197 words)

	Mount Graham background: Sky Islands and the San Carlos Apache : AZ IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In fact, many Sky Island ranges are home to species that exist nowhere else on the planet, such as the endangered and endemic Mount Graham red squirrel.
		Today, most native predators have been hunted to the brink of extinction and logging, grazing, road-building, and other forms of habitat fragmentation have taken their toll (although a Jaguar was recently sighted in Southern Arizona!).
		The planned UA telescope project on Mount Graham threatens the spruce-fir forest atop this highest Sky Island range (the Pinaleños) by building roads, cutting down ancient trees, and further impacting an area dangerously out of ecological balance due to decades of grazing, fire supression, and other human impact.
	arizona.indymedia.org /print.php?id=2743 (527 words)

	Ramsey Lewis - Sky Islands - GRP Records
		If his latest, the similarly multi-faceted Sky Islands, is any indication, Ramsey is still soaking up the best that life has to offer and translating that into magnificent musical terms.
		Sky Islands concludes with a lush funk instrumental version (with backing vocals) of "Tonight" (track 5), on which Ramsey's sweet piano and Henry Johnson's breey guitar stand out even more.
		Chiefly responsible for establishing Chicago jazz in the 1960's, Ramsey Lewis was born in the Windy City May 27, 1935 and was seduced by the piano by age nine.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /product.aspx?ob=e&src=lb&pid=9162 (1587 words)

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		The Sky Islands Wildlands Network (SIWN) is composed of four private non-profit conservation groups: The Wildlands Project and the Sky Island Alliance (both based in Tucson), the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, and Naturalia, A.C. (based in Mexico).
		Like the Galapagos, the Sky Islands are known to have an unusually high level of ecological diversity, which is the result of their location and elevation.
		The Sky Islands is a region where there is the lowest gap in the continental system of parallel mountain ranges that extends from northern Canada to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec at the southernmost portion of the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.tucsonaudubon.org /conservation/skyislands.htm (1514 words)

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		Anyone living on one of these islands must presumably have the means to get to and from the island, or at least get food and water to the island (unless they have their own supply, or unless they don\rquote t eat).
		Even if the island\rquote s inhabitants are isolationist, other people will no doubt want to travel to the island out of curiosity, greed, or a desire to seize control of the island for their own purposes.
		The inhabitants of a flying island may be winged themselves, or they may ride on flying beasts such as wyverns or griffons, in enchanted flying ships, or on strange flying machines.\par \tab A variant on the sky-island is the world where such islands make up the only solid (or at least inhabitable) land.
	www.msu.edu /~reesmatt/Cosmo7.rtf (3317 words)

	The Sky Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Weldon Heald coined the term "sky islands" in 1967 to denote mountain ranges that are isolated from each other by intervening valleys of grassland or desert.
		The 40 ranges of the Sky Island system may be thought of as an archipelago.
		The greater Sky Islands region is globally important for the lessons it taught Leopold, for its role in launching the wilderness preservation movement, and for its wild and enchanting landscape.
	www.skyislandalliance.org /what.htm (223 words)

	RootsWeb: TMG-L Re: [TMG] In the sky islands of the high Chihuahuan desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	newsarch.rootsweb.com /th/read/TMG/2004-01/1074698267 (123 words)

	Mexico - Apache Highlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Home to the San Pedro, Yaqui and Sonora river watersheds, this region of Mexico, New Mexico and Arizona encompasses the "Sky Islands." Resulting from the convergence of the Rocky and Sierra Madre mountain ranges, and the isolation of 40 island mountain ranges in a sea of desert grasslands, "sky islands" are unique, diverse biological communities.
		In addition to the unique "Sky Islands" ecosystems, the Apache Highlands are the headwaters for the major rivers of northwest Mexico.
		By capturing precious rainfall, feeding tributaries and replenishing underground aquifers, these areas are critical for the long-term survival of both residents and wildlife on both sides of the border.
	nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/mexico/work/art8617.html (461 words)

	U.S. DIVE TRAVEL: Peter Hughes SKY DANCER, Galapagos Islands.
		The islands are volcanic in origin with rare ecosystems of flora and fauna with coexisting aquatic and terrestrial wildlife.
		The Galapagos Islands are the crossroad for the Equatorial Counter Current and colder Humboldt Current of South America, thus providing an area rich with nutrients and food for the numerous marine creatures.
		We all know that the Galapagos Islands offer some of the world's most remote and exotic adventure diving, yet because of this destination's keen popularity among the diving world's elite, there often is a scarcity of prime live-aboard space for divers booking fewer than 4-to-5 months before departure.
	www.usdivetravel.com /V-GALAPAGOS-SkyDancer.htm (5495 words)

	Madrean sky islands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The enclaves are surrounded at lower elevations by the (Click link for more info and facts about Sonoran) Sonoran and (Click link for more info and facts about Chihuahuan desert) Chihuahuan deserts.
		The sky islands are the northernmost of the Madrean pine-oak woodlands, and are classified as part of the Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests (Click link for more info and facts about ecoregion) ecoregion.
		There are approximately 27 Madrean sky islands in the United States, and 15 in northern Mexico.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/madrean_sky_islands.htm (90 words)

	Conference Focuses on Biodiversity, Management of Sky Island Archipelago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The region is called the "Sky Islands" because the mountaintops provide "islands" of habitat separated from each other by the "sea" of deserts and grasslands.
		The conference, Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago II: Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas (5th Conference on Research and Resource Management in Southwestern Deserts), is expected to draw at least 350 attendees, including researchers, managers and activists from both sides of the United States-Mexico border.
		The 1994 conference on biodiversity and management of the Sky Islands kicked off local, national and international discussion of the Madrean Archipelago, and the proceedings from that conference have served as a guide to resource stewardship in the region for 10 years.
	uanews.opi.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/goPrint?ArticleID=9162 (696 words)

	Sky islands added to 'hot spots' \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		The authors say the 40 sky islands in Arizona and New Mexico are part of a larger biological community, the Madrean pine-oak woodlands, which also includes Mexico's main mountain chains, isolated mountaintops in Baja California and part of Big Bend National Park in Texas.
		He said all the sky islands tend to stand out from a landscape of desert shrublands and include a wide range of ecosystems.
		The sky islands represent just 2.3 percent of the Earth's surface.
	www.azstarnet.com /dailystar/printDS/59932.php (485 words)

	PRC-DIGEST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sky Island Alliance also backs congressional measures to fend off urban sprawl, such as the one that recently created Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, centered about 50 miles southeast of Tucson.
		The Sky Island Alliance endeavors to check environmental balance through "ground truthing" field programs, such as its ongoing road survey in Southern Arizona's Coronado National Forest, which consists of 12 sky island areas.
		The factions were brought together by the contention that protected areas in sky island terrain are often too small and too isolated to permit natural migration of animals as well as plants and ecological processes.
	www.freedom.org /prc/prc-digest?i=volume00/420 (2394 words)

	Pinaleño Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sky islands are important facets in the biogeography of the southwest deserts.
		Due to the position of this terrestrial archipelago, the flora and fauna of the sky islands are a mix of species from the southern Madrean and the northern Petran (Rocky Mountain) assemblages.
		For the populations of many species found on the sky islands, the desert habitats currently surrounding the mountain ranges is an impenetrable barrier.
	ag.arizona.edu /research/redsquirrel/pinaleno.html (296 words)

	Southern New Mexico Travel and Tourism Information: Sky Islands — a unique environment worthy of ...
		Its focus is the Sky Islands/Greater Gila region, an interrelated geography of life zones, including the Gila River watershed in New Mexico, the San Pedro River watershed in Arizona, and lands adjacent and in between.
		The goals of the Sky Island Alliance are lofty and expansive, but there is evidence that the group nonetheless has both feet on the ground.
		Those mountain islands and desert seas are still there; not what they were, not what they could be, but still magnificent.
	www.southernnewmexico.com /Articles/Outdoors/Skyislands.html (1105 words)

	Underwater Photography Trip Reports by Stephen Frink: Galapagos Islands Aboard Sky Dancer
		The Galapagos Islands are a group of 13 major islands, six small islands and dozens of islets located in the Pacific Ocean some 1,000 km east of Ecuador.
		Cousins Rock is a classic tuff cone island, with erosion sculpting an endless variety of ledges and undercuts, which in turn are home to an endless variety of fish and macro critters.
		Normally the Sky Dancer spends two days of a one-week itinerary, but we asked for a custom cruise to optimize both land walks in the Central Islands and the diving in the north.
	www.stephenfrink.com /sf-reports/galapagos2002 (5459 words)

	Eastern Sky - A 46-foot Moody cutter available for sailing vacation yacht charters in the Caribbean - Paradise ...
		Eastern Sky is a 46-foot Moody cutter available for sailing vacation yacht charters in the Caribbean - Paradise Connections, St. Thomas Virgin Islands.
		Eastern Sky is a fully air conditioned charter yacht and accommodates up to four guests in two cabins.
		Eastern Sky is a perfect yacht for honeymoon charters with their large aft cabin.
	paradiseconnections.com /easternsky (123 words)

	The Wildlands Project Comes to Hidalgo County - A Country Girl's Musin' by Judy Keeler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As I watched the Sky Island participants, I wondered how many of the marchers, much less the local residents, were familiar with the Sky Island concept, who birthed the movement and its agenda.
		It also claimed, “islands of national parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas” had to be expanded for the sake of numerous plants and animals.
		According to the Plan, the greatest threats to the “sky island” area are subdivisions, poor livestock grazing practices, fire suppression and recreation and resource based management by the federal agencies.
	www.calfraud.com /stacks/judymusin.htm (16388 words)

	Arizona - Apache Highlands
		The Apache Highlands Ecoregion spans 7,000 feet in elevation, crossing sky islands, grasslands, and green riparian corridors.
		Sky islands are mountain archipelagos separated by basins of plains and semi-desert grasslands.
		The sky island mountains of this ecoregion contain a high mammal diversity, which includes nearly 100 species.
	nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/arizona/preserves/art1942.html (426 words)

	Wild Reading - Wildlands Project
		The fact of the matter is that connections between the Sky Islands and the Sierra Madre may well be the most endangered wildlife linkages on the continent.
		Due to the threat that border infrastructure now poses to large-scale conservation planning and survival of native wildlife, the Wildlands Project last year identified the Sky Islands borderlands as one of ?ve wildlife linkages most at risk of being lost along the chain of the Rocky Mountains from Canada to Mexico.
		Disruption of wildlife movement between northern Mexico and Sky Islands habitat in the U.S. presents serious survival challenges to jaguar, ocelot, fl-footed ferret, southwest willow ?ycatcherÂ—all federally listed as endangered speciesÂ—and other regional species that are in decline.
	wildlandsproject.com /cms/page1130.cfm (2600 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A collection of high mountains surrounded by desert seas, the "Sky Islands" are islands of rock, islands of vegetation, and islands of wildlife.
		It is an area that hosts the most eclectic collection of natural and American history anywhere." - from "The Sky Islands of Southeastern Arizona," by Kate Crowley and Mike Link.
		As the majestic rock formation of meeting Wrightson gives way to grasslands and "desert seas" the Santa Ritas are eventually surrounded by the Sonora Desert to the north and the west and by the grasslands of Sonoita and Patagonia to the east and the south.
	www.santaritalodge.com /Page1.htm (184 words)

	Hill Island Lodge - 1000 Islands Ontario Canada (Canada's only hotel on one of the 1000 Islands)
		The Lodge is situated on 10 acres of rugged timbered topography, typical of the Islands.
		Located on Hill Island, one of the famous 1000 Islands, the property abuts 1000 acres of St. Lawrence Islands National Park, a tranquil and secluded corner of the 1000 Islands.
		Hill Island Lodge closes for the winter and re-opens in May. However the office remains open year round for reservations and information.
	www.hillislandlodge.com (138 words)

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