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[-] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not too sure where the source data for this post originated, but here is the Wiki for US Ecoregions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ecoregions_in_the_United_States_(EPA)

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago

What is Deseret? turns out it is not a misspelling of desert on the map.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago
[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I looked it up and started to read about it but decided to has better things to do with my time than finish the article.

[-] PaulDrye@lemmings.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

It was the name the original Mormon settlers in Utah gave to the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Iirc Joeseph Smith claimed that was an ancient "Jaredite" word for honeybee.

The "Jaredites" were an imaginary people from Mesopotamia who left after the collapse of the tower of Babel in sealed boats and ended up in the good ol US of A.

Obviously there is no achaeological evidence for this group of people because Joeseph Smith made them up for his ~~cult~~ fanfic

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, I linked it in my reply.

[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What’s up with the Boston portion of Arkansas? What makes it different than Ozark?

Edit: Boston Mountains

[-] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe they should all be named after tribes

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, and also not use the name of the whole continent for itself like a spoiled bitch.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I like how sporadic state names are, then you get to the midwest and it's just like "fuck it, let's keep Iowa Wisconsin Michigan Illinois Ohio". Honorable mention for the Utah-Wyoming-Colorado-New Mexico section

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] wakest@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Skua@kbin.earth 9 points 3 weeks ago

The map renames the actual EPA ecoregions as if they were states. "Deseret" here is just the Central Basin and Range ecoregion, but that happens to line up pretty well with the proposed State of Deseret so the author seems to have just gone with it

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] atocci@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Iowa ❤️

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