Over 150 color photos and accompanying text document wetland sites in the American Southwest and Mexico.

Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.

It is a high valley edged by serrated peaks, a remote expanse the size of Connecticut lying, as if forgotten, between two mountain ranges. Here, North AmericaÕ

"The Las Vegas Formation was established in 1965 to designate the distinctive light-colored, fine-grained, fossil-bearing sedimentary deposits exposed in and ar

From the Pinacate lava fields and expansive dunes to the shores of the Gulf of California, the Gran Desierto is one of the hottest and driest places in the West