Eastern Mojave Vegetation Tom Schweich
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Eastern Mojave Vegetation | Death Valley Road |
| Tom Schweich |
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Road connects the Owens Valley with the northern portion of Death Valley, by way of the Inyo Mountains, Eureka Valley, and the Last Chance Range. The road is paved for about half of its length, but the northern Death Valley portion is often washed out in the vicinity of Sand Spring.
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|  So, is the road closed? Or Not? Other Articles: Field Notes: 20001006080 California Highway 168: at Death Valley Road Locations: Big Pine. Owens Valley.
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This intersection is three miles west of Big Pine in the Owens Valley. California Highway 168 goes east to Deep Springs Valley, and Fish Lake Valley. | Locations: Devils Gate.
| Devils GateFolded layers of shale form a canyon through which the road runs.
|  Looking into Owens Valley from Death Valley Road
Other Articles: Field Notes: 20001006090
| |  Waucoba Saline Road Other Articles: Field Notes: 20001006090 Waucoba Saline Road: 10000 Junction: Waucoba
Saline Road, south through the Saline Valley to California Highway 190.
| |  Little Cow Horn Valley Other Articles: Field Notes: 20001006100 Locations: Little Cow Horn Valley. | Little Cow Horn ValleySmall closed basin. |
 View west of
Little Cow Horn Valley Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08
| |  Joshua trees in Joshua Flats, Inyo County, California. 
Joshua trees in Joshua Flats, Inyo County, California
Other Articles: Field Notes: 20001006110 Locations: Joshua Flats. | Joshua FlatsValley in the Inyo Mountains, through which Death Valley Road passes.
| Literature Cited: Other Articles: Field Notes: Eureka Valley, October 6, 2000 Locations: Eureka Valley. Last Chance Range. |
| Other Articles: Field Notes: Eureka Valley, October 6, 2000 Locations: Eureka Valley. Junction: Eureka
Valley Road, goes north through Cucomongo Canyon. |
| Other Articles: South Eureka Road: Junction:
Junction: South Eureka Road, south 10 miles to the Eureka Sand Dunes.
| |  Hanging Rock Canyon Other Articles: Field Notes: 20001007070 20001007130 Locations: Hanging Rock Canyon. | Hanging Rock Canyon
|  General view of Crater Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08 |
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Literature Cited: Other Articles: Field Notes: Last Chance Range, October 7, 2000 Swertia albomarginata: 16150030 Locations: Crater. Last Chance Mountain.
| CraterFormer mining camp.From Crater, there is a fairly good road that runs north and then through a canyon, giving good access to the south end of Last Chance Mountain. I have collected Swertia albomarginata on the southern portion of Last Chance Mountain. |  Death Valley
Road traverses the Last Chance Range Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08 |
|  Valley on east side of Last Chance Range. Other Articles: Field Notes: 20001007080 Locations: Last Chance Valley. View of Last Chance
Valley | |  Northern end
of Death Valley. Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08
| |  Death Valley
Road climbs the Last Chance Range Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08 |
|  Crankshaft Crossing Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08 Locations: Crankshaft Crossing. Last Chance Canyon. Last Chance Spring. | Crankshaft JunctionRoad to Last Chance Spring and Last Chance Canyon.
|  General view south into Death Valley. Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08
| | Literature Cited: Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08 Locations: Sand Spring.
| Sand SpringAstragalus lentiginosus Douglas var. sesquimetralis (Rydb.) Barneby, the Sodaville milk-vetch, was previously listed at Threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife service in 1992. The taxon occurs at (Big) Sand Spring, Inyo County, California, Sodaville, Mineral County, Nevada, and Cold Springs, Nye County, Nevada. Following incorporation of the Sand Spring site into Death Valley National Park and action to protect the population from wild burros, the Fish and Wildlife Service withdrew the proposed rule to list the taxon as Threatened (Fish and Wildlife Service, 1998). | Literature Cited: Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08 23-Apr-08 Locations: Little Sand Spring. Little Sand Spring |
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Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08
| |  Foothills of
the Grapevine Mountains along Death Valley Road Other Articles: Field Notes: 23-Apr-08
| | Other Articles: Racetrack Valley Road: at Death Valley Rd | Junction:
South to Scotty's Castle and Death Valley. |
| Literature CitedA list of all literature cited by this web site can be found in the Bibliography.
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| DeDecker, Mary. 1984. Flora of the northern Mojave Desert, California. Berkeley, CA: Califonia Native Plant Society.. {TAS} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Fish and Wildlife Service. 1998. Withdrawal of Proposed Rule to List the Plants Astragalus lentiginosus var. micans (shining milk-vetch) and Astragalus lentiginosus var. sesquimetralis (Sodaville milk-vetch) as Threatened. Federal Register. 63(193):53631-63635. ... Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Tabor, Lawrence L/. 1936. Geology of the Crater Sulphur deposits, Inyo County, California. Unpublished Master's thesis. Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Wrucke, C.T. ; Werschky, R.S. ; Raines, G.L. ; Blakely, R.I. ; Hoover, D.B. ; Miller, M.S. 1984. Mineral resources and mineral resource potential of the Little Sand Spring Wilderness Study Area, Inyo County, California. USGS-OFR-84-557. Reston, VA: Geological Survey, 1984 Jan 01. Location records referred to by this literature:
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| | Date and time this article was prepared: 5/15/2008 12:32:31 PM |
