2 edition of Death Valley National Monument, California, Nevada. found in the catalog.
Death Valley National Monument, California, Nevada.
United States. National Park Service.
Published
1976
by U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service in Washington
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Written in
Edition Notes
Map on verso.
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| Pagination | [2] p. : |
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| Open Library | OL17815228M |
Ghost Towns, Mining Camps, and Closed Mines: Amargosa, Nevada – East of Amargosa Valley, Nevada – Railroad foundation only. Note: The townsites of Original, Nevada and Death Valley Junction, California, were also called Amargosa for a time. Bullfrog, Nevada was called Amargosa City briefly. The largest national park outside of Alaska, Death Valley is an almost unfathomable place. The park’s million acres/ million hectares encompass mountain-size sand dunes, below-sea-level salt flats, mysterious singing rocks, and colorful sandstone canyons. Extremes are the norm: Death Valley is the hottest and driest place in America, with summer temperatures peaking above F°/
Located in southern California and Nevada, Death Valley National Park is a moderate car ride from Los Angeles or Las Vegas. Humans first arrived aro years ago. Finding artifacts of their existence is a rewarding opportunity to travel back in time, and remnants such . Get this from a library! Potential hazards from floodflows in Wildrose Canyon, Death Valley National Monument, California and Nevada. [John R Crippen; United States. National Park Service.].
The valley quickly became popular as a winter destination, and in February President Herbert Hoover signed the proclamation creating Death Valley National Monument, encompassing almost 3, square miles. Other facilities that started out as private getaways, were later opened to the public. Grapevine Canyon is on the western slope of the Grapevine Mountains in the northern part of Death Valley National Monument, California and Nevada. Grapevine Canyon Road covers the entire width of the canyon floor in places and is a frequently traveled route to Scotty 's Castle in the canyon. The region is arid and subject to flash flooding because of infrequent but intense convective storms.
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Death Valley National Monument. California, Nevada. Paperback – January 1, Author: National Park Service. USGS's Death Valley National Monument and Vicinity, California and Nevada is a political, road, topographic Death Valley National Monument and Vicinity, California and Nevada with Shaded Relief and Contours: United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey: : Books.
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Death Valley National Monument lies mostly within the state of California, although the Bullfrog Hills area in its northeast corner extends over into Nevada.
The park was created by Presidential Proclamation on 11 Februaryand after some boundary changes it now encompasses about 3, square miles of varied desert and mountain terrain. Mattes, Merrill J, and Simmonds, Robert V. Charcoal Kilns, Wildrose Canyon, Death Valley National Monument, California.
San Francisco National Park Service Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Western Service Center, Bookstore. The new Death Valley Natural History Association Bookstore is now available through the Natural History Association website. The Natural History Association (DVNHA) also operates sales outlets at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, the Stovepipe Wells Ranger Station, Scotty's Castle Visitor Center and Museum.
Hottest, Driest, and Lowest National Park. In this below-sea-level basin, steady drought and record summer heat make Death Valley a land of extremes.
Yet, each extreme has a striking contrast. Towering peaks are frosted with winter snow. Rare rainstorms bring vast fields of wildflowers.
Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California — Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley, and most of Saline on: California and Nevada, United States.
Death Valley National Park, one of the hottest, driest and lowest places in North America, is a landscape of incredible beauty characterized by miles of deep sand dunes, colorful rocks and canyons, an assortment of native wildlife and one-of-a-kind evaporative salt elements.
Death Valley National Monument lies in the southeastern corner of Inyo County and borders the California-Nevada boundary line.
It forms the northern point of the great Mojave Desert region. Approixmately square miles of the floor of the valley lie below sea leveel, and Bad Water. Get this from a library.
Potential hazards from floodflows in Grapevine Canyon, Death Valley National Monument, California and Nevada. [James C Bowers; United States. National Park Service.; Geological Survey (U.S.)]. National Park Death Valley Death Valley, CA,NV. In this below-sea-level basin, steady drought and record summer heat make Death Valley a land of extremes.
Yet, each extreme has a striking contrast. Towering peaks are frosted with winter snow. Rare rainstorms bring vast fields of wildflowers. Lush oases harbor tiny fish and refuge for wildlife.
Called “the most botanically diverse national monument in America,” by David Myers of The Wildlands Conservancy, the Sand to Snow National Monument gets its name from dramatic changes in elevation, which range from the sandy desert floor to Mount San Gorgonio’s 11,foot summit, the highest peak in Southern California and often capped with snow well into spring.
Near this monument, the Jayhawker group of Death Valley Forty-Niners, gold seekers from Middle West, who entered Death Valley in seeking short route to the mines of central California, burned their wagons, dried the meat of some oxen and, with surviving animals, struggled westward on foot.
State Registered Landmark No The Oasis at Death Valley is situated in a lush oasis surrounded by the vast and arid desert of Death Valley National Park, California – just miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada and miles northeast of Los Angeles, California.
Learn more. Get this from a library. Proposed wilderness area, Death Valley National Monument, California and Nevada. [United States.
National Park Service. Denver Service Center.;]. Death Valley National Park, California/Nevada, USA: Reference: Murdoch, Joseph (b), Adamite from Chloride Cliff, California: American Mineralogist:.
On OctoDeath Valley National Park (DVNP) Ranger Dave Brenner was on a helicopter flying over the southern part of Death Valley, which straddles California and Nevada. He was involved in an aerial surveillance mission looking for illegal drug manufacturing labs. In the late morning he spotted a car in Anvil Canyon, about miles.A Case Study: Death Valley National Monument California-Nevada1 Dan Hamson and Toni Ristau 2/ 1/Presented at the National Conference on Applied Techniques for Analysis and Management of the Visual Resource, Incline Village, Nevada, AprilAuthor: Daniel Hamson, Ristau Toni.Get this from a library!
Death Valley Scotty Historic District, main house and annex: Death Valley Ranch, Death Valley National Monument, California/Nevada. [United States. National Park Service.;].
