Mouses Tank Road - Valley of Fire - Nevada
by Gary Whitton
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Mouses Tank Road - Valley of Fire - Nevada
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Gary Whitton
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Photograph - Digital Photography
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This photo shows the road that runs north through the Valley of the Fire State Park in Nevada. This area is allegedly named after a large desert pothole used as a semi-permanent water source by a Paiute Indian renegade known as Little Mouse. The reliability of water allowed Little Mouse to hide out in the rugged sandstone terrain seen in the picture during the 1890’s.
The Valley of Fire State Park covers an area of more than 49,000 acres, and offers of varied landscape, flat open desert, colorful sandstone rock strata, the written remains of ancient native american tribes, and beautiful isolated canyons and ravines that offer recreational opportunities and shelter a variety of plant and wildlife species. The Valley of Fire is part of the Mojave Desert, and lies at an elevation from 1,320–3,009.
The park is also part of the Virgin River drainage, which originates east of Zion National Park in Utah, and forms part of the vast Colorado River Basin that eventually drains into the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) in Mexico.
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March 19th, 2014
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