Sand to Snow National Monument is just west of Joshua Tree National Park.

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Chuckwalla National Monument is a protected area spanning 624,000 acres in the Southern California desert. Native American tribes throughout the area consider this landscape sacred and an important ...

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The Algodones Sand Dunes of Southern California stretch for 40 miles, creating a landscape more typical of the Sahara Desert. Little grows here and few animals manage to survive. And yet reptiles have ...

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Pops of purple have sprung in a Southern California desert after recent rain helped pave the way for a stunning super bloom.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chuckwalla National Monument is a protected area spanning 624,000 acres in the Southern California desert. Native American tribes ...