It was established in 1975 to conserve a reference section of semi-desert.

The northeast is made up of steppe and cool semi-desert.

Dawn saw them flying over semi-desert and scrub, in a sky free of clouds.

The Red Sea is between arid land, desert and semi-desert.

This is a bird of open sandy semi-desert or steppe with some grass.

A very arid semi-desert may result, even in regionswith a good rainfall.

It is a resident species of dry, open semi-desert with 75 cm or less annual rainfall.

In many cases, especially in the semi-desert of Central Australia, life would have sometimes been hard.

It is relatively easy for traffickers moving through the semi-desert of plains and hills to avoid detection.

This lark is a bird of open stony semi-desert.

This plant grows in the African tropical semi-desert (usually on hill-sides).

Due to its temperature and the amount of precipitation these sands sometimes are qualified as a semi-desert.

Where the soils are particularly saline, there are patches of semi-desert.

The locale of this crater is a semi-desert.

The surrounding Karoo region is a flat, sparsely populated semi-desert.

He'd grown up in a wet land, and even after all these years in the semi-desert was never surprised when it rained.

Most of them have no shoes and have no idea where they are being led to in their journey several hundred miles across the semi-desert.

The climate is moderate mountainous inclining to a semi-desert.

We gathered at an isolated spot of the semi-desert, an artfully protected area given over to Project Four.

Ferguson Lake has been characterized as "polar semi-desert".

This is a bird which breeds in sub-tropical semi-desert with a few trees, such as acacia.

The vegetation in Afmadow consists of rich grassland, bounded by semi-desert.

Parras is called the oasis of the semi-desert of Coahuila state.

It winters at lower levels occurring on rocky hills, steppe, scrubland and semi-desert.

This species is very common for xerophyte associations of the Ararat plain, particularly in sandy semi-desert.

A lot of it - the part in the middle - is semidesert.

There were low hills around, much growth such as would be found in any semidesert area.

I point to the lake down below us, so strange in the middle of the semidesert, but he doesn't show any interest.

The whole city was one green carpet, nothing like the brown semidesert of Southern California.

On the territory of the settlement is dominated by brown semidesert soils.

These are mostly North American natives from semidesert or desert areas.

However, this night was cool, and may have even felt chilly to people accustomed to a semidesert climate.

It is semidesert here, everything burned up and dry except for a lake, a large reservoir of some sort below us.

But the crater is not entirely an arid semidesert.

Approximately three quarters of Mauritania is desert or semidesert.

Today, 15 million people live in that semidesert: the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

The southern area of the Mughalzhar Hills is a semidesert.

In this semidesert land, large bands of janjaweed can be spotted relatively easily.

We have huge diversity here, including semidesert, riparian tropical forest, freshwater and saltwater.

All the islands are mountainous, and have some semidesert regions as well as fertile valleys.

The climate is temperate cold semidesert.

It can be found in a variety of habitats including semidesert, savannah, coastal bush, and fynbos.

It was semidesert ahead.

The road just faded out into the semidesert, vanishing into a deeply rutted dirt trail.

Delano is located within a semidesert climatic zone, receiving 5.72 inches of rainfall annually.

The northern half of the Central Valley receives greater precipitation than the semidesert southern half.

I could see Swan-nee in my mind's eye so dearly that she was almost like a mirage superimposed on the semidesert landscape around us.

Arid savannah and semidesert.

They live close to rivers, streams, and other sources of fresh water in semidesert, open grassland, or swampy habitats throughout the region.

The transition from the barren semidesert to the vivid green of the oasis where he had situated his fort was as startling as ever.