Mostly because of all the plants and animals that call the desert home. Some animals that live in the hot desert are cold-blooded, like snakes, insects, and lizards. Mammals that live in the desert are usually small, such as the kangaroo rat and kit fox. Sometimes it's hard to survive in the desert.
Las Plumas (Spanish for The Feathers; Latin: plÅ«ma feather) is a former settlement in Butte County, California.
Verdi is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States on the western side of the RenoâSparks Metropolitan Statistical Area, near Interstate 80. The CDP of Verdi, California lies immediately adjacent across the state line. Both are in the shadow of California's Verdi Range.