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There are three main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert. [5]: 408 The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains on the northwest, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains on the south, and extends eastward to California's borders with Arizona and Nevada; it also forms portions of northwest Arizona.
The Old Woman Mountains Wilderness falls within a transition zone between the Lower Colorado and Mojave deserts and encompasses many different habitat types. Creosote bush scrub dominates the lower elevations, grading into mixed desert scrub at middle elevations with juniper-pinyon woodland at the higher elevations.
The Turtle Mountains are 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Needles, California, west off of U.S. Highway 95; with Vidal Junction close on the southeast, Twentynine Palms to the west, and Blythe is south. [4] The Turtle Mountains are considered part of the greater Lower Colorado River Valley region.
Burney Falls: 1984: Shasta: State (California Department of Parks and Recreation) Contains some of the best examples in the western United States of a river drainage regulated by stratigraphically controlled springs. [7] Cinder Cone Natural Area: 1973
The Mopah Range are located directly adjacent to and linked with the larger Turtle Mountains Range. They are in the northern Colorado Desert region of the Sonoran Desert, and the southern reach of Mojave Desert. The Colorado River and Whipple Mountains are to the east, and the Iron Mountains to the west.
Broder Falls (Coyote Creek Falls) – 63 ft (19 m) + Brush Creek Falls; Cascade Falls (Yucca Creek Falls) – 50 ft (15 m) + Chagoopa Falls – 1,200 ft (370 m) Crystal Creek Falls; Franklin Falls; Freeman Creek Falls – 150 ft (46 m) Marble Falls (Marble Fork Falls) – 600 ft (180 m) Middle Fork Tule River Falls – 50 ft (15 m) Panther ...
In 2003, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) added North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve to the list of reserves under Title 14, California Code of Regulations, with special regulations that prohibit horses and bicycles from entering the reserve, but allows the department to issue livestock grazing permits, and also allows deer and upland game hunting with seasonal ...
The Thousand Lakes Wilderness is located within the southern portion of the Cascade Range in northeastern California. The 16,335-acre (66 km 2) wilderness was established in 1964 with the passage of the Wilderness Act and is administered by Lassen National Forest.