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  • With the Sheep Range far in the distance, sunlight on fresh snow highlights this Joshua tree forest in the Spring Mountain Range.
    Joshua Forest in the Spring Mountain..ange
  • 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
  • After an all night snow storm, morning sun breaks free and sheds warm light on this Joshua tree stand of the Mojave desert. This much precipitation means a more vigorous spring and early recovery from winter dormancy.
    Winter Glory in the Desert
  • 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
  • This small community of Mojave and Joshua Yucca along with native sage and shrubs live in a small arroyo. The drainage channels extra water for the plants living along the slope; deep roots extend down under the sand and rock to bring water to the plants. The storm of the previous night breaks in the background with morning light illuminating the scene.
    Yucca in the Arroyo
  • 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
  • Standing tall and full, this Joshua tree holds firm in its own clearing following an overnight winter storm.
    King Joshua in monochrome
  • Bryce overlook-2.jpg
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Sentinel - standing watch in sage and yucca in the Toiyabe National Forest (part of the Desert View Natural Recreation Area), Nevada. This Joshua Tree has stood for a long time. Although it's hard to date them because they have no annual growth rings, this one may be 250-400 years old. It has the look of experience in a harsh environment and seems to know the ways of the desert.
    The Sentinel
  • This old growth Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) seems to command his own courtyard of open space in the Joshua tree forest of the Spring Mountain range, Nevada.
    King Joshua
  • 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
  • This view of Watchman Peak and the Virgin River is a classic western image. Along with a million other photographers, I have stopped on the bridge in the middle of Zion National Park on every trip I've ever made through the canyon. This one is my personal favorite. Made in deepest, darkest January, the inclination of the sun is low and far to the south, illuminating the ridge with mellow sunset and warming the distant Eagle Crags with a surrounding cape of snow.
    The Virgin and the Watchman
  • The worse the weather, the better the pictures. This photo in the field was made by Steve Roberts in December 2008. Same day as the two snow images of Zion in this collection. We had the park to ourselves all day, making first tracks anywhere we went. Absolute best day ever at ZNP.
    at Zion