White-tailed ptarmigan cover. The white-tailed ptarmigan was introduced into the Sierra Nevada of California, Wallowa Mountains in Oregon, and Uinta Mountains of Utah in the 1970s. It may have been native here during the early Pleistocene but became locally extinct due to climate changes with greater snow-cover in spring impacting on its breeding season. Alternatively, it may have been unable to colonize the Sierra Nevada because of the barriers provided by the Columbia River and the Great Basin, and the low altitudes of the intervening South Cascades. This herbivorous bird's diet varies seasonally. Nitrogen-rich snow buttercup leaves are favored in the spring
Return to White Plume Mountain Return to White Plume Mountain Return to White Plume Mountain is an adventure module for the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" roleplaying game released in 1999 by Wizards of the Coast under its then recently acquired "TSR" imprint. It is set in the "World of Greyhawk" campaign setting and is a sequel to Lawrence Schick's 1979 module "White Plume Mountain". The 64-page book was written by Bruce R. Cordell and updates the legend of the eponymous mountain and its previous inhabitant, the sorcerer Keraptis. In the Greyhawk timeline, the events in the module are assumed to occur 20 years after the