Mohave Desert


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nouna desert area in southern California and western Arizona

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"So when I go through the Mohave Desert and it's hot as Hades?
They thrive from northern Canada to the Mohave Desert, from Florida to Hawaii.
The RBH team took to the Mohave desert - an hour's drive inland from Los Angeles - for a photoshoot that took place in temperatures of over 40C.
Rodeo stuntman Eddie has driven 2,480 miles to a lousy motel room on the edge of the Mohave Desert to meet May again.
Heller found a herd of 30 pronghorn in the western edge of the Mohave Desert near the eastern base of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, California, the "remnant of the hundreds that recently inhabited this arm of the desert." He describes the habitat as a heavy forest of "tree-yuccas" [Joshua trees]," which is flanked by an open adobe plain supporting a scanty growth of bunchgrass and afileria [filaree], including the bases of the bordering hills and mountains.
Virgin has invested more than $100m (pounds 57m) in the project, which will be based in the Mohave Desert in California.
Turning to their north, you can see the cities of Apple Valley and Victorville, which lead to the Mohave Desert.
Their modified cars and trucks had to complete a 132- mile obstacle course through the Mohave desert. Four of the entries actually completed the challenge.
Speaking before one of the aircraft's test flights in the Mohave Desert, California, Sir Richard said he was ``very, very excited'' about the challenge.
This topography extends westward through Arizona's Sonoran Desert and into the Mohave Desert of southern Nevada and California.
The Great Basin is a unique geographic region that stretches from the Wasatch Front east of Salt Lake City to the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the west, from southern Idaho and Nevada on the north to the Colorado River Basin and the Mohave Desert on the south.
Kristalle showed a 13-pound (!) nugget that had been found using a metal detector in the Mohave Desert. The piece now resides in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.