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by desert_boi
1706 days ago
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Do you have a source pointing at that common definition? I lived a majority of my life in the West US (ID, MT, WA), and have never heard North Dakota referred to as the West. Maybe it's a Canadian thing? -100W is the border of Manitoba and Alberta? |
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I've driven back and forth across it a lot. Obviously it's a gradient and not some magic barrier the great-tailed grackles cannot cross. And we do get western kingbirds a couple hundred miles east as well as western meadowlarks. It's still a handy boundary so that you know more or less what to expect in a given area ecologically.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/04/11/the-100th-merid...
https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2018-04-12-100t...