Great basin desert

Great Basin desert. Nevada.2009

Nevada Desert

The Mojave Desert has some great places to photograph especially where it meets the Great Basin Desert. The place is so vast and the space just seems to go on for miles and miles. At times the weather is so changeable you can just wait for the unpected to happen. I was watching the clouds change earlier in the day as this cloud just grew larger and larger. The camera was only inches from the playa floor and pumice rock but the camera is placed this way in most of my photographs. Some of you…

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The scenic Bighorn Basin and world-class fishing opportunities on the Bighorn River have made Big Horn County, Wyo., a tourist destination, but the area is also rich in oil and natural gas—and history. People have lived in the area since ancient times, as evidenced by the Medicine Wheel near the county’s northern corer. Ranch families still raise cattle and sheep, and farm families still raise sugar beets as they have for more than a century.

The Great Basin Desert is a stunning landscape to hike and camp. It is filled with isolated mountain ranges and forests, & wild horses (or mustangs).

The Great Basin Desert is the second-largest desert in North America and the world’s 10th largest desert, slightly smaller than the Chihuahuan Desert.

Sunset in Death Valley National Park

Pictures and description of Artemisia tridentata, Great Basin Sage Brush.