California Desert Miracle- The Fight for Desert Parks and Wilderness Mammoth 645 pages with 468 color

645 pages with 468 color photographs

Each site chapter has a brief description of the area and its vegetation

000 acre wilderness is in the Sierra National Forest on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada southeast of Huntington Lake

Unraveling these events reveals a geologically quiet continent that got scrambled in a long and grinding collision with the Pacific crustal plate

California Desert Miracle- The Fight for Desert Parks and Wilderness Mammoth 645 pages with 468 colorCalifornia Desert Miracle is a story of how unpaid and under funded volunteers fought for the last large area of wildland left in California. Their efforts, lasting over 20 years, culminated in the enactment of the California Desert Protection Act of 1994. The story describes how masterful leadership helped work the Act through Congress despite filibusters, "holds", and other legislative mechanisms of delay and destruction arrayed against it. This