I decided to go against my gut yesterday and I was glad. When I went to bed Saturday night, I had planned to go to one of two places on Sunday to do some photography. I was planning on going to either Cajon Pass/Mormon Rocks or Joshua Tree National Park. I woke up Sunday, peaked [...]
Going to Joshua Tree National Park
October 4, 2010 by Steve Reiss
Filed Under: Desert Tales Tagged With: cajon pass, cholla garden, clouds, Cottonwood, dalmdad, joshua tree, mojave desert, morman rocks, steve reiss, yucca
Cactus Wrangling
July 10, 2010 by Margie Klein

The wild west still has its wranglers. Cactus wranglers are the bane of today, stealing and destroying specimen cactus throughout the desert southwest. But new technology is helping to rope in some of these modern-day poachers.
Filed Under: Discover Southern Nevada Tagged With: barrel, beavertail, cactus, candy, CITES, collectors, cottontop, Desert, ethics, flora, harvest, illegal, illegal take, landscaping, law, legal, microchip, native, native plants, pencil cholla, permits, pincushion, poaching, prickly pear, regulations, saguaro, scarlet hedgehog, silver cholla, specimen, stealing, thieves, trafficking, wild west, wrangling, yucca
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