Mopah Range
| Mopah Range | |
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  Mopah Range location of Mopah Range in California[1] | |
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USGS Savahia Peak SW | |
The Mopah Range is a desert mountain range, in the Lower Colorado River Valley region, in southeastern San Bernardino County, California.[1]
Geography
The Mopah Range are located directly adjacent to and linked with the larger Turtle Mountains Range. They are in the northern Colorado Desert region of the Sonoran Desert, and the southern reach of Mojave Desert.
The Colorado River and Whipple Mountains are to the east, and the Iron Mountains to the west. Vidal Junction, California is to the southeast, and the Colorado River Aqueduct passes to the south.
Turtle Mountains Wilderness Area
The Mopah Range is part of the Turtle Mountains Wilderness Area.
Natural history
The Mopah Range is located in an ecological transition zone between the
Dominate vegetation in the Turtle Mountains Wilderness Area consists of the creosote bush-bur sage with
Wildlife species include desert bighorn sheep, coyote, black-tailed jackrabbits, ground squirrels, kangaroo rats, quail, roadrunners, golden eagles, prairie falcons, rattlesnakes, the desert tortoise and several species of lizards.[4]
Recreation
References
- ^ a b "Mopah Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
- ^ "Turtle Mountains Wilderness Area". Archived from the original on 2010-09-13. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
- ^ C. Michael Hogan, 2009, California Fan Palm: Washingtonia filifera, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg Archived 2009-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b http://www.blm.gov/ca/pa/wilderness/wa/areas/turtle_mountains.html Archived 2010-09-13 at the Wayback Machine . accessed 6/22/2010 . BLM public domain sourced