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The Mojave Project traces the musical heritage of Pioneertown and other adjacent communities of the High Desert.
While urban California flourishes, small towns in its arid interior are stripped for parts.
Marta Becket transformed Death Valley Junction's decaying community meeting hall into a vibrant muraled theater.
From makeshift meth labs to the Manson Family, view a history of criminal activities in the Mojave Desert.
A cultural history of conservationist efforts to save the Devils Hole pupfish along with the endemic species of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
The depth of Devils Hole, a fossil water portal into an ancient aquifer in Nye County, Nevada is still not known. The geothermal abyss is home to the endangered Devils Hole pupfish -- the rarest known pupfish in the world.
The desert tortoise, the state reptile for both Nevada and California, truly embodies the physicality and timelessness of the Mojave Desert but is also most negatively affected by our own human presence herein.
Open for 30 years, The Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Resort was the vision of radio evangelist and business man Curtis Howe Springer.
Although collective attitudes towards arid landscapes have changed drastically over time, the concept of desert as wasteland continues to persist.
A closer look at the collection habits of humans and other species suggests that we are all purveyors and taxonomists of discarded refuse.
In the 1990s, California's Ward Valley became ground zero in the fight over nuclear waste, endangered species and sacred lands.
The Mojave Project explores the eclectic desert communities of the Mojave Desert.