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Black Arch, Arches National Park, Utah.

Blue sky and clouds above the boulders in Joshua Tree National Park California.

Aerial view in the Valley of Fire, Nevada, USA. Seen in the evening at summer.

Sunset in the Spitzkoppe area in Namibia

Full length shot of a young woman hiking in the mountains

Impression of an early morning sunrise in Joshua Tree national park on an early winter morning.

Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Area long exposure

A rare snow with Joshua Trees.

Close up of cactus

Large boulders fit perfectly together in this formation in California's Joshua Tree National Park.

Los Alamos, NM: Sunlit Rocky Cliff/Mesa/Canyon, Agave Foreground

Western Iberian ibex, Capra pyrenaica subsp. victoriae. Photo taken in La Pedriza, Guadarrama Mountains National Park, Madrid, Spain

A rock climber on a red rock wall in Moab, Utah USA.

a scenic winter landscape in Chiricahua National Monument Arizona

Water is a scarce resource in the desert Southwest. In the early 1900's cattle ranchers, needing a natural water source, built a catch basin in this high desert area of California to capture rainfall and runoff. Later, a dam was built here by the Barker and Shay Cattle Company to expand the reservoir. Because of insufficient rainfall in the area, cattle ranching was a short lived enterprise. Today, Barker Reservoir in Joshua National Park, California is a quiet oasis, providing water and shelter for desert animals and migrating birds.

Saguaros and prickly pear cactus thrive in a field in the Verde Valley in Tonto National Forest

Joshua Tree National Park, in southeastern California. It is named for the Joshua trees native to the park, it is part of the Mojave and Colorado desert.

Infrared black and white image Sonora desert in central Arizona USA

A black and white of a Joshua Tree in the desert.

a scenic winter landscape in Chiricahua National Monument Arizona

Early morning landscape in the Alabama Hills of California

Panoramic view of the giant rocks in the arid desert landscape of Spitzkoppe Namibia

Two of the most striking features of the Mojave Desert in the American Southwest are the pillowy shaped rock formations and the strange looking plants that surround them. Heat and pressure over thousands of years transformed sedimentary rock into an entirely new kind of rock called gneiss. The Mojave Yucca (Yucca schidigera) Is also known as the Spanish Dagger because of its sharp spiny leaves. These Mojave Yucca were photographed at the Split Rock area in Joshua Tree National Park, California.

Only about 15 miles from Las Vegas, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area offers amazing vistas of colorful rocks, attracting two million visitors annually to its scenic drive, hiking trails, and rock climbing opportunities.

Joshua Trees in Mojave Desert in Joshua Tree National Park, California.

The Vast Sonora desert in central Arizona USA on a early Spring morning

There was a proliferation of wildflowers in March 2017 in northwestern Baja California after the prodigious rains of the preceding winter. The 100 km stretch of desert between El Rosario and Cataviña exploded with at least 50 species of wildflowers in such abundance as to cover entire hillsides and valleys with swaths of color. In this photo, there are flowering California encelia bushes (Encelia californica) and several cardón cacti (Pachycereus pringlei) and boojum trees (Fouquieria columnaris).

Lee Pass Trailhead Sign In Zion National Park

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