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Aside from its paleontological significance, it is home to typical flora and fauna of the Mojave Desert, including a stable population of bighorn sheep and desert tortoise. [1] [2] The area was created as an addition to the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1994 as a part of the California Desert Protection Act. [3]
The higher elevations of the mountain are a striking sky island contrast to the lower elevations of the Mojave Desert vegetation. [5] Creosote bush (Larrea tridentata), scrub and Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) forests grow on the foothills of the mountain while single-leaf pinyon pine (Pinus monophylla), Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma), and white fir (Abies concolor) grow on the sky ...
The Manix, Mojave, and the Little Mojave lakes are all large but shallow. [ 13 ] : 7 Soda Lake is the principal saline basin of the Mojave Desert. Natural springs are typically rare throughout the Mojave Desert, [ 13 ] : 19 but there are two notable springs, Ash Meadows and Oasis Valley .
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The Kelso Dunes are composed of five stacked sets of dunes, each set corresponding to a period of climate change over the last 25,000 years. During dry climate episodes, a decrease in stabilizing vegetation exposed surface sand to wind erosion, which ultimately brought the sand to the dunes (most of the eastern part of the Kelso dunes was formed when nearby Soda Lake and Silver Lake dried into ...
The Clark Mountain Range is located in southeastern California, north of Interstate 15 and the community of Mountain Pass. The range stretches approximately 15 miles (24 km) in a southwest-northeasterly direction, beginning in the Mojave National Preserve, and ending near Stateline Pass, about one mile (1.6 km) from the Nevada border.
Answer: The hoatzin. One of the rarest animals in the world, this antelope-like mammal is often referred to as the “Asian unicorn” due to the long horns protruding from its head.
The ecosystem within the Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge is situated in an ecotone (transition zone) between Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert ecoregions, increasing diversity of plant species present within it, There are few places in the Arizona deserts where one can view saguaro cacti forests, wetland broadleaf cattail (Typha latifolia) stands, and cottonwood woodlands in a ...