Nature's Boundaries: Five Ways to See the U.S. Without State Lines
TL;DR
The piece invites viewing the United States through its natural contours—pine-cone variations signaling biomes, evidence of the ancient Western Interior Seaway, migratory links between shorebirds and horseshoe crabs, Appalachian topography shaping salamander diversity, and the Chesapeake Bay watershed—demonstrating how nature and culture cross state lines, as highlighted in Smithsonian’s From These Lands exhibition.
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