Gallery: Fascinating Maps Isolate America's Trees, Corn, and Grass

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    Michael Pecirno designed a series of maps that look at individual landscape features of the United States. Here you see the grasslands.
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    The grasslands of the Midwest.
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    Corn is the country's largest crop, yet it's concentrated almost exclusively in the middle of the U.S.
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    The shrubbery of the desert is largely found in the southwest of the U.S.
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    Shrubbery detail.
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    Evergreen forests are probably best known as part of the Pacific Northwest, but they're also present in the South.
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    Water data visualized.
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    Here's Louisiana's many waterways.
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    A look at the population of the U.S.
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