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The Mojave Desert landscape offers many dramatic geologic features, including peaks, dry washes, salt pans, cliffs, canyons, sand dunes, and alluvial fans. It is richly diverse in plant and animal species that have adapted to its extreme climate. The continued development of cities in southern California and Nevada in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had a significant effect on the ecology of the region. As a result, the US Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and other public agencies have moved to protect its biological diversity and to ensure sustainability of this uniquely scenic region. |
