This map shows where food stores are located across California with gray dots. Along with that, the red indicates the income of the area. The dark red indicates areas with higher poverty rates and, and the lighter area indicates the places with lower poverty rates. When you first look at the graph it looks like California has a lot of food sources in most of the areas people live in. However, there is more to California's food sources when you take a closer look. The blue indicates poverty rates. (The darker blue means higher poverty rates, and the lighter blue mean lower poverty rates). And the blue and green dots indicate whether the food source is a grocery store or not. The red means it is not a food source and is a convenience store, and the green means it is a food source. As you can see there are way more red dots than green, meaning there are more convenience stores compared to regular grocery stores. A lot of the areas that only have red dots mean that that area is a food desert. That means they have no good quality fresh produce near them. Now let's take a closer look at some towns.

description: These estimated precipitation data were compiled using the WestMap web site (http://www.cefa.dri.edu/Westmap/). We selected pixels on the map shown on their web site that were in the core of our study areas: one near Palm Springs, California and the other at Sugarloaf Mountain in the Tonto National Forest of Arizona. WestMap uses PRISM data to make point measurements of climate data and a digital elevation model of terrain to create estimates of monthly climate elements. Estimates are derived for a 4km grid, for ease in mapping and GIS applications. PRISM is an integrated set of rules, decision making, and calculations designed to imitate the process an expert climatologist would go through when mapping climate data. We were interested in precipitation data for two hydroperiods: winter precipitation (October-March) and summer precipitation (June-September). These two periods are important for desert tortoise ecology since they trigger germination of food plants in the spring and in the summer.; abstract: These estimated precipitation data were compiled using the WestMap web site (http://www.cefa.dri.edu/Westmap/). We selected pixels on the map shown on their web site that were in the core of our study areas: one near Palm Springs, California and the other at Sugarloaf Mountain in the Tonto National Forest of Arizona. WestMap uses PRISM data to make point measurements of climate data and a digital elevation model of terrain to create estimates of monthly climate elements. Estimates are derived for a 4km grid, for ease in mapping and GIS applications. PRISM is an integrated set of rules, decision making, and calculations designed to imitate the process an expert climatologist would go through when mapping climate data. We were interested in precipitation data for two hydroperiods: winter precipitation (October-March) and summer precipitation (June-September). These two periods are important for desert tortoise ecology since they trigger germination of food plants in the spring and in the summer.