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The Mojave Desert is a desert bordered to the west by the Sierra Nevada mountain range and the California montane chaparral and woodlands, and to the south and east by the Sonoran Desert. The boundaries to the east of the Mojave Desert are less distinctive than the other boundaries because there is no presence of an indicator species, such as ...
Mojave National Preserve is a United States National Preserve located in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, US, between Interstate 15 and Interstate 40. The preserve was established October 31, 1994, with the enactment of the California Desert Protection Act by the United States Congress, [2] which also established Joshua ...
Coordinates: 33°35′N 116°20′W. The Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve is a biosphere reserve designated by UNESCO in 1984 to promote the ecological conservation of a cluster of areas in the Mojave and Colorado deserts of California. A principal feature is Death Valley. [1] The four management units encompassed by the reserve ...
Mojave Trails National Monument is a large U.S. National Monument located in the state of California between Interstates 15 and 40. [1] It partially surrounds the Mojave National Preserve . It was designated by President Barack Obama on February 12, 2016, along with Castle Mountains National Monument and Sand to Snow National Monument , also in ...
The Mohave tui chub (Siphaletes bicolor mohavensis) is a subspecies of the tui chub endemic to the Mojave River. [1] The Mohave tui chub was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 1970, then added to California's list of endangered species in 1971. A recovery plan was created by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1984.
California carpenter bee. California leaf-nosed bat. California quail. California rock lizard. Canis latrans mearnsi. Canyon bat. Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat. Costa's hummingbird. Crotalus cerastes.
The area is a natural oasis in the Mojave Desert. The oasis is fed by close to 24 natural warm springs and contains many naturally occurring California fan palms (Washingtonia filifera), creating an ecosystem normally limited to the "low" Colorado Desert and so unique to the "high" Mojave Desert. The springs are the headwaters for the Muddy ...
The Amargosa Desert is located in Nye County in western Nevada, United States, along the California – Nevada border, comprising the northeastern portion of the geographic Amargosa Valley, north of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. The desert is named after the Amargosa River, which was named after the Spanish word for bitter because ...