Search results for "North American Porcupine" - New World Encyclopedia

are mostly smaller (although the North American porcupine reaches about 85 ... by the Canadian porcupine or North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum ...

Fisher is the common name for a largely arboreal, North American carnivorous ... and so forth. Even the well-protected porcupine is captured by the fisher ...

mountain in Canada and second highest in North America (after Mount McKinley ... Disputed evidence of the oldest remains of human inhabitation in North ...

The Cheyenne are a Native American tribe that originally lived in ... The Cheyenne are a Native American nation of the Great Plains. The ...

or MicMac) are a First Nations/Native American people, indigenous to northeastern ... their cedar and birch boxes, adorned with porcupine quills. In these ways, ...

for Thomas Russell, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War who owned ... by the National Geographic Society to the American people. The Monument was ...

Richard Theodore Ely (April 13, 1854 – October 4, 1943) was an American ... Henry C. Adams (1851-1921), founded the American Economic Association (AEA ...

on Alaska's North Slope. It extends from the Beaufort Sea on ... ecozones that span some 200 miles (300 km) north to south. These include the ...

Reindeer, known as caribou when wild in North America, are an Arctic ... their wild counterparts. The caribou of North America can run at speeds ...

the influential French supporter of the American Revolution. It was the first ... center on state-owned land four miles north of the park, multiple-use ...

populated with Mexican-Americans. The north-central and northwestern ... Forests, Parks, Monuments, and Native American reservations. The striking ...

The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central ... The Census Bureau divides this region into the East North Central ...

tribes in the 1830s and recorded Native American daily life.]] ... these were embroidered with dyed porcupine quills; more modern versions ...

is a state of India located in the far north-eastern part of the country ... such as the Doyang and Dhiku flow to the north, while the Barak River flows ...

Pottawatomie or Pottawatomi) are a Native American people originally of the ... that traveled down the Atlantic shores of North America, eventually making ...

of the boreal forest or taiga in the North American continent. The forests ... Philadelphia vireos, rusty blackbirds, American Three-toed Woodpeckers, ...

is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. It likely corresponds ... Its landmass slopes upward from south to north, culminating in the highlands ...

accessible southern cassowary of the far north Queensland rain forests is ... reduced to stiff, keratinous quills, like porcupine quills, with no barbs ...

concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest. The 34,000-acre ... which remained the largest buildings in North America until the nineteenth ...

is 13.2 miles (21.2 kilometers) farther north than the southernmost point; ... by ridges and valleys running roughly north and south; many of these ...

connecting to Jasper National Park in the north. Provincial forests and Yoho ... Jasper National Park is located to the north, while Yoho National Park ...

the cougar was extirpated in eastern North America, except an isolated ... are various deer species, particularly in North America; mule deer, white ...

the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana ... the oil sands are in the sparsely populated north; about 80 percent of the ...

Nevada is broken up by many north-south mountain ranges. Most of these ... became nomadic. Four main Native American groups developed: the Washoe ...

and rolling hills of the Great Plains of North America. They are often thought ... they roamed across the Great Plains of North America. This region extends ...

masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met ... from 1st century Rome through modern American design, are permanently ...

States of America, located in the east north central portion of the country ... entirely water boundaries, from south to north, with Illinois and Wisconsin ...

together they work in conjunction with American Indian tribes, states, local ... The park is bordered on the north by Waterton Lakes National Park ...

the most densely populated nation on the American mainland and is undergoing ... from Spain in 1821 and from the Central American Federation in 1839. A 12 ...

Massachusetts has been a significant state in American history. The ... Massachusetts is bordered on the north by New Hampshire and Vermont; ...

very cold winters and hot summers in the north and a mild maritime-influenced ... and leopards roam in search of food. In the north, some of the rarest animals ...

Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American nation of Venezuela and ... Originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin at least ...

writing his own songs, influenced by American and British psychedelic ... inspired by the Fenlands, a rural region north of Cambridge (Barrett, Gilmour ...

Caspian Seas, Armenia is bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan ... 30,000 square kilometres) is located in the north-east of the Armenian Highland ...