Encompassing diverse desert landscapes, with almost two-thirds of it wilderness, the park stretches south from Riverside County for more than 60 miles to just short of the Mexican border.
These two trajectories are distinctly different and are associated with their own unique linkages, feedbacks, and dynamics of abiotic and biotic land surface properties, producing a highly diverse desert landscape.
The park protects the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and contains a diverse desert environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons, and mountains.
Whether along the Pacific Coast Trail,or elsewhere within the monuments, people can hike, ski, horseback ride or bird watch in a diverse desert landscape unlike any other.
Although scorpions are most common and diverse in deserts, they also live in many other habitats.
Most outdoor scenes were shot in the province of Almería, which offered a semi-arid climate, diverse terrain (deserts, beaches, mountains), and Roman and Moorish structures that could be adapted for many settings.
The area is topographically diverse — high desert in the north flows into lush grasslands in the south — and ethnically kaleidoscopic.
He then proved just how diverse the desert blues of northern Mali can sound, by launching into a rhythmic, galloping song with an insistent bass line, driven on by furious hand-claps, that provided the exhilarating backing for a guitar solo that would surely have impressed his British heroes.
Rattlesnakes are found from southern Canada to central Argentina but are most abundant and diverse in the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Although the conflicts have taken place in vastly different contexts--in environments as diverse as jungles, deserts, and urban areas, and with motivations such as religion and land disputes--two striking similarities emerged from the data.
