Pictures: Barker Dam/Indian Hieroglyphs in Joshua Tree National Park

Newer dam.

Old dam, build by early settlers.

Cement trough underneath the dam.

Wooden trough next to the cement trough.

You can see here how people destroyed priceless Native American artifacts by coloring the hieroglyphs.

Roadrunner

Joshua Tree National Park is located in Southern California. It includes parts of the Mojave Desert which is at a higher elevation than the Colorado Desert, which makes ups another portion or the park. The park not only consists of Joshua trees but a variety of cacti and brush surrounded by great mounds of sandstone rock. There are numerous stops along the way where you can get out and walk through mazes of cholla cacti, hike along valleys of Joshua trees and on the sandstone rock, you can climb up high and see for miles in the surrounding area.

Pictures: Joshua Trees in Joshua Tree National Park, Palm Springs

Joshua Tree National Park is located in Southern California. It includes parts of the Mojave Desert which is at a higher elevation than the Colorado Desert, which makes ups another portion or the park. The park not only consists of Joshua trees but a variety of cacti and brush surrounded by great mounds of sandstone rock. There are numerous stops along the way where you can get out and walk through mazes of cholla cacti, hike along valleys of Joshua trees and on the sandstone rock, you can climb up high and see for miles in the surrounding area.

Pictures: Rocky Mountain Elk Sheding/Loosing It's Antlers

Elk as seen a week before with both antlers attached.

This Rocky Mountain Elk, or Watipi as the Native American's call it, had both antlers about a week before these pictures were taken. When it was seen on a hillside where it is often found this time of year, and it only had one. I immediately hiked over to it thinking it would make fore a cool picture, with only one antler. However when I arrived and saw it in the trees both where gone! I glanced about and saw it sticking out of the snow. Hopefully it will come back next year and repeat the process, and perhaps I'll get a couple photos of it with only one antler.