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Desert Magazine

June - July 1985 $2.50 MAGAZINE of the SOUTHWEST It will be n' Woolly at the Orange County Fair "We want to make the public more aware of this interesting hobby and, by doing so, we are also giving jewelers, gemologists, and rock collectors an opportunity to share their hobby and profession with others at the Fair this year." Orange County has numerous clubs for the rockhound and mineral c...

Du&tL COMING IN DESERT FOR 1985 AND BEYOND A PREVIEW Many of our readers have asked what subjects we will be covering in upcoming issues. Here is a partial list of them. DESERT visits the ARIZONA NORTHERN MINE, Dick Wick Hall's Glory Hole SWANSEA, Ghost Town of the Buckskin Mountains Recreation Unlimited: California's Owens Valley Colorado River Subjects: Camping along and on the River, Lak...

• Photo by George Service save time apd money with gift subscriptions! PLEASE USE ENVELOPE ENCLOSED OR COUPON ON PAGE 41 DW GRANTHAM, Editor M. BANDINI, Photo Editor P. RICHARDS, Circulation L. GARNETT, Advertising VOLUME 48, NO.5 NOVEMBER 1984 ISSN 0194-3405 CONTENTS PANAMINT CITY DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY AND HIS CASTLE DEATH VALLEY'S GHOST TOWNS AND CAMPS A DEATH VALLEY SIDETRIP - THE WEST...

DESERT QUIZ Here's a bit of geology and mineralogy, Indian life and legend, history and archeology, geography, plant and animal life. If you do not know the correct answers off-hand, you might do one of two things start reviewing your Desert Magazines or make some lucky guesses. If you score 10 right answers you are as good as the average person interested in the Southwest. Quiz editor will r...

VOLUME 48, NO. 3 JUNE - JULY 1984 ISSN 0194 - 3405 i. -; I- ? i• I• '•• •. - j i ^< ^ ivy • • £» W : . . ,! r. F<-. 1 The Canyon oak, found in the Pinyon pine belt o\ the higher desert ranges, varies in size from a shrub to a 60foot tree. Both toothed and entire leaves are seen on the branch pictured here. Beal photo. Oak Iteel on 1/elatt Mountdln6 By MARY BEAL / y LTHOUGH oak...

VOLUME 48, NO. 2 APRIL-MAY 1984 ISSN 0194-3405 DESERT VISITS JULIAN THE PONY EXPRESS HOW TO RECOGNIZE METEORITES DON JOAQUIN'S LOST GOLD MINE • ., ; Ii 1 AJutl hot the A/ative By MARY BEAL / y F GOOD fortune has led you to the V higher desert mountains, you have met with that distinctive member of the Pine family, the Pinyon tree. If you don't know it, let's scrape acquaintance with it n...

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-V DECEMBER 1983 VoL. 4 7 , No. 2 ISSN 0194-3405 •r By GEORGE BRADT COLLARED LIZARD (Crotaphytus collaris): This lizard is one of the handsomest of them all. It is strikingly marked with a double black collar, blotched and banded legs and tail, and all this over a vivid yellowish-orange ground color. It has a large head, thick body, and a tail measuring twice the body length. These are rathe...

SNAKE RIVER COUNTRY Bill Gidick Photography by Earl Roberge "Born "in incredible beauty, flowing through incredible desolation, nourishing incredible fertility . . . " So begins Bill Gullck's story of the Snake, perhaps the last important wild river left in the Pacific Northwest, a river that has, in earlier times, played a monumental role in exploration, in empire and in settlement. Now, beca...