Today we see many large-scale solar plants and wind farms changing the ecology of the Mojave Desert. However there are many other changes being brought about that are not as well-known such as the devastation brought on by the wild Burro and Tamarisk. Fortunately we have people and organizations that

By knowing a little bit about the Smoketree one can learn a lot about the desert. This tree marks out many unique environmental features in the desert. The first thing one wants to understand about the Smoketree is that it’s name refers to the way the tree looks rather than

Tracking and reading sign is art form that can be applied to any species but here we are going to concentrating on the desert Bighorn sheep. When tracking Bighorn sheep there are four major elements one wants to be aware of. The first element is tracks or hoof prints. The

Like all desert animals how desert Bighorn sheep acquire and conserve water is literally a matter of life and death. Some animals like the kit fox and the jackrabbit can live off the water that they find in their food and the occasional rain. Desert Bighorn sheep cannot do this.

For convenience sake’s we’re reading newspaper rock from top to bottom and from left to right more or less. Though it goes without saying that this was not the way these glyphs were put down or meant to be read. And I’ll agree that it is somewhat presumptuous of me

The object of this lesson is to emphasize the incredible value and ability of modern optics to somebody who values environmental awareness. While many people value having an in-environmental awareness, until you’ve experienced a lesson or two in the field similar to this one, the value of owning proper optics

All living things try to grow and spread their population. This force that tends to spread life can be viewed as a form of inertia, so we can say that a population is either gaining or losing inertia, and sometimes we can view this inertia as a wave. Oftentimes we

The Coso Mountain petroglyphs are the last remnant of a society that started thousands of years ago and lived almost to our present time. And through the artistry and symbolism of these petroglyphs we know that it was a hunter gather society that was based on hunting desert bighorn sheep,

Not all petroglyphs lend themselves to be interpreted or understood. Those that do can give us tremendous insight to the ways of the past. In this picture we have three different petroglyphs from a panel in the east Mojave preserve. Each had meaning and value at the time that were

In a time before our modern roads there were ancient roads that crisscrossed the desert, sometimes for hundreds of miles, others just to go from one valley to the next. On these ancient roads people walked for thousands of years long before there were even horses and wagons in the

This is one of the most famous petroglyphs in North America and rightfully so. It is unique in many ways. To start with, it’s an action shot with two characters inter-acting with each other. This alone puts it in a rare and unique category of petroglyphs, and makes it worth