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Chuckwalla National Monument is a national monument in the Colorado Desert of Southern California that protects 624,270 acres (2,526.3 km 2) of desert habitat in Riverside and Imperial counties from development. [1] [2] The monument spans several mountain ranges between Joshua Tree National Park and the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range.
When disturbed, a chuckwalla wedges itself into a tight rock crevice and inflates its lungs to entrench itself. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] Males are seasonally and conditionally territorial; an abundance of resources tends to create a hierarchy based on size, with one large male dominating the area's smaller males. [ 5 ]
The Chuckwalla Mountains, near the San Andreas Fault, rise like an island from a vast sea of sand and rock; within the walls of this "rock fortress" is a variety of landforms, textures, and colors. They include steep-walled canyons, inland valleys, large and small washes, isolated rock outcrops, and panoramic expanses of desert.
The Chuckwalla monument begins in the west around Painted Canyon, an area where the mountainside is stained deep red, pink, green and gray. To the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, the red ...
The designation of the Chuckwalla National Monument in the southern California desert and the Sattitla Highlands National Monument near the state's northern border comes a day after Biden ...
The Chuckwalla National Monument creates the Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor - the largest corridor of protected land in the United States, covering 18 million acres that stretch around 600 ...
Sauromalus ater, also known as the common chuckwalla or northern chuckwalla, is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. [2] [3] It inhabits the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its range extends from eastern California, Utah, and Nevada south to Baja California and Sonora. [4]
Morning light glows on the Chuckwalla Mountains. President Biden established Chuckwalla National Monument, protecting more than 600,000 acres of public lands in the California desert.