Tag: National Park

• Oh Where, Oh Where Did My Pupfish Go?

  Beginning in the 1890s, much of the Amargosa region just east of Death Valley was extensively explored and mined for nitre, a naturally occurring nitrate, first used for gunpowder and later for glass, matches, explosives, and fertilizer.  The sites included Zabriskie, Resting Springs, Tule Springs, Upper Canyon, Lower Canyon, Salt Spring, Saratoga, Round Mountain, Valley,…

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  September 5, 2022

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  Amargosa, Ash Meadows, Death Valley, Death Valley Birds, escapit, Ken Larsen, Mining, Mojave Desert, Nancy Tallent Larsen, National Park, Pupfish, Shoshone, staying well hidden underground, Wildlife refuge, Zabriskie Point

• A flat tire did it all…

  If not for a flat tire, Marta Becket may never have come across the abandoned hotel and social hall in the desert that would come to be her lifelong stage. While her husband looked for help with the tire, Becket peered into the hall. The floors were warped, the paint was peeling, a set of…

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  July 12, 2022

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  Death Valley, Emmy, Marta Becket, National Geographic, National Park, Opera House, painted people

• Ready for the Adventure?

  Saline Valley has been inhabited for thousands of years, petroglyphs can be found throughout the valley.  Native Americans lived here until the early 1900s. Borax was mined from the salt marsh from 1874 to 1895. Some of the mine pits can still be seen near the dry lakebed.  Salt was also mined here. An aerial…

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  February 26, 2022

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  Charles Manson, Death Valley, Desert, Hot Spring, Mining, National Park, Saline Valley, Warm Spring