It was the early Summer of 2006 and we were headed back from a wedding in Mexico. As we approached San Diego we could see smoke in the distance and wondered where the fire was located. As we got closer and closer to our town, “Yucca Valley” we still had no idea the fire was […]
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In the arid landscapes of the southwestern United States, an intricate relationship unfolds between an unlikely pair—the yucca moth and the Joshua tree. This mutually beneficial alliance between a specific moth species and the iconic Joshua tree is an extraordinary example of coevolution and interdependence. This article delves into the captivating relationship between the moth
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The Giant Rock in Landers, CA is notable mainly due to George Van Tassel and the UFO Conventions he held there. Van Tassel was first introduced to Landers and its huge boulder by Frank Critzer, a German immigrant who had come to the desert to try his hand at prospecting in the early 1930s. Critzer lived in a subterranean space he dug out underneath
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The austere desert landscape of the wild west has long fascinated and inspired artists. Georgia O’Keeffe painted the American desert in images of abstract red mountains, desert wildflowers and iconic portraits of drought defined by bleached bones and skulls. Frederic Remington focused his work on the old American West with intricately detailed paintings of cowboys, Native American Indians and other characters that
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A trip to Joshua Tree isn’t complete without a side trip to Pioneertown, CA. Built in the 1940’s, Pioneertown was created and used as a western motion picture set. The buildings were also designed to serve as housing for the actors and crew while they filmed. The Cisco Kid and Judge Roy Bean are two of many films shot at
Road Trip to find Barry Storm’s Jade Mine with Team DUSA I tagged along with Team DUSA the other day, looking for Barry Storm’s “Jade Mine”. Storm was a sometime writer for Desert Magazine and sometime hunter of lost mines. He was also the author of a book entitled “Thunder God’s Gold”. It was based
