The Mojave and Walking Box Ranch

The Mojave Desert is a vast and diverse environment with a majority of it in California. It is the Mojave that many non-Californians imagine when they conjure images of this California desert. However, the Mojave also spans the southern third of Nevada, as well as a portion of Washington County Utah, and a substantial portion of northwestern Arizona. The weathered and rounded granite boulders of Joshua Tree National Park and the worn Miocene bluffs of Red Rock Canyon State Park are significant markers and places within the Mojave Desert, but so is the border of the Mojave abutting Kingman Arizona, where the it gradually transitions with the Mogollon Rim. Additionally, the Mojave slopes around Beaver Dam Wash, Utah, where there are Joshua trees and Blackbrush that grow and thrive out of Colorado Plateau., Lastly, it includes the Tikaboo Valley in Central Nevada, which is the one area in the world that two subspecies of Joshua trees are found together.

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