Gold Butte
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Joshua trees silhouetted against layers of mountains.
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The panel known as Newspaper Rock at the Falling Man site.
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Jimson weed or sacred datura.
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Desert marigold
Bladder sage
Barrel cactus
Barrel cactus in blossom
Tarantula hawk wasp
Chuckwalla
Mojave aster
Bladder sage
Bladder sage blossoms, Falling Man.
Angles
Wash along Interstate 15, looking toward the Virgin Mountains.
Grasshopper and thistle
Butterfly and blossom
Cottontail rabbit
Photographed along the Virgin River.
Jimson weed
Jimson weed or sacred datura.
Jimson weed
Jimson weed or sacred datura.
Horned lizard
Horned lizard, photographed near the Falling Man site.
Friends
A little girl holds a horned lizard.
Lone Palm
View from the formation known as Lone Palm or Little Finland.
Falling sheep?
These petroglyphs near Kirk’s Grotto seem to be of bighorn sheep falling.
Desert iguana
Desert iguana runs across dunes near Mud Wash.
Virgin River rainbow
Virgin River rainbow
Rainbow over the Virgin River, Mesquite, Nevada
Define Gold Butte.
It’s 345,000 acres in Clark County, Nevada, a region that lies in the northern Mojave Desert, with a terrain that includes flat desert, canyons, washes, massive rock formations, rugged mountains. The environment is arid and harsh.
Human habitation goes back thousands of years, as evidenced by the petroglyphs etched in the sandstone by at least four distinct groups of people. More recent human presence included the Spanish mining gold in the 1700s, and the mining of gold, copper and other minerals into the 20th century (and in one case, even into the 21st).
It is impossible to write a succinct description of a place so varied and ever-changing — a place you see one day can look entirely different in a different light on a different day. A rocky slope can be barren and bleak one day, and carpeted with bright and gentle poppies a few days later.
This is not an encyclopedic look at Gold Butte, merely a collection of my photographs, a collection that is always growing. I am not an expert on Gold Butte, just a committed fan.
