California Desert 1988 From ancient twisted forms of bristlecone pines on snowy slopes, down through a jumble of crimson red rock canyons, past miles of sculpted sand, to the misty, crusted flats of a salty sink--this is California's desert.
Fragile, brittle, harshly beautiful, this 25-million-acre desert covers a full quarter of thes state, nearly half of it public land. It remains among the least peopled and least tamed sections of the country.
But now, human impact threatens ...