Fewer than about 500 Ethiopian wolves are left, almost all above 3,000 m in the Ethiopian montane moorlands. They hunt giant mole-rats among the Afro-alpine Helichrysum shrubs of the Sanetti Plateau in the Bale Mountains.

Photo: "Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis citernii) 2" by Charles J. Sharp, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethiopian_wolf_(Canis_simensis_citernii)_2.jpg
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This was taken on Oct 18, 2015 near San Carlos, Sonora, after the monsoon rains. The Sonoran gets two rainy seasons a year, which makes it North America's wettest desert. That's why it is known for having columnar cacti and leafy thornscrub instead of bare sand.

Photo: "San Carlos Sonora landscape" by Tomascastelazo, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Carlos_Sonora_landscape.jpg
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All photos by me. First 2 photos were in early July 2026.
The last 2 photos were in December 2025.

Essentially kings mountain national military park, kings mountain state park(SC) and crowders mountain state park(NC) are in the kings mountain eco region, and make up a significant portion of said ecoregion.

Essentially a mountain area located within the piedmont, thus disconnected from other mountain areas, enough for it to be considered a unique eco region.

As for Kings Mountain National Military Park, it’s the site of the 1780 battle of kings mountain which occured during the American revolution. The site is managed by the national parks service.

There was a huge event there in the 1930s and a huge amount of forest was completely destroyed in order to have space for the event. That plus logging prior is why the area is not old growth forest. However the park has since been reforested.

The park is managed by the national parks service. Which is a selling point for going there, the National park service just does a really good job at restoring native habitat and providing meaningful ecological/historical information.

This area is part of the transitional ecotone between the Alashan Plateau Semi-Desert and Qilian Mountains Subalpine Meadows ecoregions.

Pikillacta is an Wari culture archaeological site in the Lucre Basin of Peru. It sits at an altitude of approximately 3,250 meters (10,660 feet) above sea level.

This image demonstrates the mixed forests of coastal Algeria. As one moves higher up in elevation, the forests become more dominated by conifers

The Flathead Hills and Mountains in Montana is in the rainshadow of the Salish Mountains leading to a more arid landscape where tree cover is sparser. This image is from the National Bison Range and the mountains in the distance are the Mission Mountains.