A world worth
looking closer at.

01 / Salt River ValleyILLUSTRATIVE LANDSCAPE STUDY

Sonoran desert alluvial plain converted into America's fifth-largest metropolis

Relief

525 m

Paved surface

68.4%

Protected overlap

14.2%

02 / Colorado PlateauILLUSTRATIVE LANDSCAPE STUDY

Two billion years of exposed lithic strata bisected by the Colorado River

Relief

1,828 m

Paved surface

0.3%

Protected overlap

98.6%

03 / Mojave Desert / Lower Colorado BasinILLUSTRATIVE LANDSCAPE STUDY

America's largest engineered reservoir drowning ancient towns, canyons, and mining camps

Relief

1,158 m

Paved surface

0.8%

Protected overlap

94.2%

04 / Gulf Coastal PlainILLUSTRATIVE LANDSCAPE STUDY

Drowning alluvial bird-foot delta losing a football field of land every 100 minutes

Relief

16 m

Paved surface

2.1%

Protected overlap

62.8%

05 / Colorado Desert / Cahuilla BasinILLUSTRATIVE LANDSCAPE STUDY

Accidental endorheic sea formed by engineering catastrophe in a sunken desert rift

Relief

1,351 m

Paved surface

2.8%

Protected overlap

38.4%

06 / Interior AlaskaILLUSTRATIVE LANDSCAPE STUDY

North America's highest peak and the battleground of sovereign geographic naming

Relief

5,580 m

Paved surface

0%

Protected overlap

99.8%

07 / Space Coast / Atlantic Coastal PlainILLUSTRATIVE LANDSCAPE STUDY

Barrier island spaceport coexisting with one of North America's richest wildlife estuaries

Relief

7 m

Paved surface

18.5%

Protected overlap

86.4%

08 / Eastern Sierra / Great BasinILLUSTRATIVE LANDSCAPE STUDY

The profound desert graben whose desiccation built modern Los Angeles

Relief

3,339 m

Paved surface

0.9%

Protected overlap

88.2%