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  2. Black Rock Desert - Wikipedia

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    The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe ecoregion) of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock DesertHigh Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa 100 miles (160 km) north of Reno, Nevada, that encompasses more than 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of land and contains more than 120 miles (200 km) of historic ...

  3. High Desert County, California - Wikipedia

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    In January 2013, Boyer "again argued that Santa Clarita and other high desert semi-arid communities separate north of the San Fernando Valley secede from Los Angeles County and form our own new county. Call it High Desert County or Mountain County or Land of the Dry Rivers County -whatever- we need to secede from Los Angeles County". See also

  4. St. Andrew's Abbey - Wikipedia

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    St. Andrew's Priory thus began its ministry in Valyermo, which is located in the High Desert of Southern California and within the boundaries of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It is not far from the communities of Palmdale, Lancaster and Wrightwood, California. Priory to Abbey. In 1992, St. Andrew's Priory became an abbey.

  5. Desert pupfish - Wikipedia

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    The desert pupfish ( Cyprinodon macularius) is a rare species of bony fish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It is a small fish, typically less than 7.62 cm (3 in) in length. Males are generally larger than females, and have bright-blue coloration, while females and juveniles are silvery or tan. A notable attribute of the desert pupfish is their ...

  6. California High-Speed Rail - Wikipedia

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    The same viaduct completed in February 2021. California High-Speed Rail ( CAHSR) is a publicly funded high-speed rail system being developed in California by the California High-Speed Rail Authority. Phase 1, about 494 miles (795 km) long, is planned to run from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim via the Central Valley, and is partially ...

  7. High desert - Wikipedia

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    High Desert (California), an area of Southern California deserts just north of the San Bernardino and Little San Bernardino Mountains. Colorado Plateau, a high desert area in the United States of 337,000 km 2 (130,000 mi 2) in western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, southern and eastern Utah, and northern Arizona.

  8. High Desert State Prison (California) - Wikipedia

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    Fred Foulk. High Desert State Prison ( HDSP) is a high-security state prison that houses level IV inmates located in Leavitt, Lassen County, California. [2] [3] Opened in 1995, it has a capacity of 2,324 persons. As of July 31, 2022, High Desert was incarcerating people at 78.4% of its design capacity, with 1,823 occupants.

  9. Lost Ship of the Desert - Wikipedia

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    This is a media timeline list of material related to the "lost ship" in the California desert; it shows how the story has changed in each generation's telling. Note: Although most written items are a paragraph or more long, and sometimes lengthy articles, some are only a brief sentence or two in passing of what the author had heard and thought ...