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The Sonoran Desert is a desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States. It is the hottest desert in both Mexico and the United States. It has an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi).
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The Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center is one of the original seven of the total 39 sites in the University of California Natural Reserve System. It contains lands originally donated to the University by regent Philip L. Boyd in 1958. The Research Center is contained within UNESCO's Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve.
BUzzards Peak Wilderness is a protected wilderness area to the southeast of the Milpitas Wash Wilderness separated by California State Route 78 in Imperial County, California. Established in 2019 by the U.S. Congress, the area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Indian Pass Wilderness, Imperial National Wildlife Refuge and the Colorado River are to the south and southeast. Wildlife includes the desert tortoise, Yuma kingsnake, Colorado River toad, Great Plains toad, tree lizard, burros, mule deer and mountain lion. Vegetation found in the area: cholla and beavertail cactus, ocotillo, palo verde, acacia, ironwood, and the rare California Ditaxis.
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- ↑ Colorado DesertLandforms, Picacho Mountains.,
- ↑ Picacho SRA, Beavertail Cactus
- ↑ Peucephyllum schottii, Sonoran Desert Plants, packrat middens, Whipple Mountains, 11,500 bp; Picacho Peak, 11,000 bp; p 315-317.
- ↑ Bur. of Land Management, Little Picacho Wilderness. (photo gallery) Archived 2010-07-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Winter 2005-2006, Indian Pass Wilderness & Little Picacho;
- ↑ Winter 2005-2006, Indian Pass Wilderness & Little Picacho;
- Creosote bush and Bursage, Lower Colorado River Valley-(with photo).
- Turner, Bowers, & Burgess. Sonoran Desert Plants; an Ecological Atlas, Raymond M. Turner, Janice E. Bowers, Tony L. Burgess, c 1995, Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson. 504 pages.
