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  • Joshua trees stand at the lower altitude edge of their range, and at the edge of Three Lakes Valley. The valley is named for what are pretty much just mythical lakes, now. This area is at the northern end of Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, where wooly mammoths once roamed lush wetlands during the Pleistocene epoch. The Pintwater mountain range is in the distance. The pastel colors are cast on the scene by a thin morning cloud cover over the valley which softens the contrast and evenly illuminates details in shadow while muting highlights that would otherwise be glaring in their strength.
    Joshua Tree Stand
  • Looking almost like a painted Hollywood backdrop, the Pintwater range and Three Lakes Valley provide a background for dawn's early light in the Mojave desert. An overnight snowstorm - rare for this territory - comes once a decade.
    Mojave Winter Dawn
  • Spanish Bayonets (Yucca baccata) in the Joshua tree forest, guarding the way of the trees in the Spring Mountain range, Mt. Charleston foothills. Joshuas (in the background) typically prefer sloped elevations of 3800-6000 feet, while the yucca prefers elevations from 2800-5000 feet. Joshua trees are not really trees; rather another form of yucca (Yucca brevifolia).
    Spanish Bayonets (Yucca baccata) in ..rest
  • Soft lifting clouds cover the Pintwater range in the Mojave desert of southern Nevada. After a windless overnight snowstorm, morning light filters through low clouds to kiss the snow with a touch of rose pink coloration. The mountains in the distance have an interesting dual citizenship status; they are inside the Desert National Wildlife Refuge which is inside the Nellis AFB bombing and gunnery range. That means you can look at those mountains, but you can't go there.
    Desert Rose Morning
  • The ridge of a Mojave desert mountain range and its alluvial slope rising before it look like frozen surf and icebergs rushing forward to wash over a Joshua tree forest on the desert floor. A storm of this intensity, and its peaceful warming sun at dawn are a rare sight in the Mojave desert.
    Frozen - Desert Icebergs
  • Lucky day to get snow across basin and range country in the Mojave desert. You'll see this only about once in every decade - ankle deep snow where in the summer it's 115 degrees F.
    Three Lakes Valley, Nevada
  • This view is one of the morning after an overnight snow storm in harsh, desert wilderness and an awakening to a new day at sunrise. There's more though; this is a remarkable collision of land forms and desert use areas just north of Las Vegas. Visible in the frame ( and in the photographer's view all around) are portions of the following: Nellis AFB bombing and gunnery range, Southern Nevada Paiute reservation lands, the Sheep mountain range, the Spring Mountain range, the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, the Desert View Environmental Recreation Area, the desert combat training facility, the Three Lakes Valley and the US Highway 95 corridor.
    After the Storm
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