Sentences with phrase «death valley national»

Driving along the strip at night or motoring through Death Valley National Park are sights not to be missed.

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After adjacent thermometers showed conflicting temperatures Sunday at Death Valley National Park, park rangers this morning resolved the debate over the precise peak temperature reached.

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar yesterday approved a 500 - megawatt (MW), 6,320 - acre solar power facility to be built in Nevada's Amargosa Desert, just east of Death Valley National Park.

Artist Statement «The view of badlands from Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park.

Artist Statement I chose to illustrate Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park because, growing up in Las Vegas, I visited the barren desert often.

«Death Valley National Park in California is the lowest point in the US.

Artist Statement «Inspired by Rainbow Canyon in Death Valley National Park, I wanted to intrigue viewers through an eccentric, stylized illustration, somewhat exaggerative with the use of vibrant colors and iconic...

The company also operates the exclusive Furnace Creek Resort in Death Valley National Park as well as upscale, world - renowned lodges such as El Tovar, the Lake Yellowstone Hotel and Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park and Crater Lake Lodge in Crater Lake National Park.

Warm evening air, a desert breeze, cabañas by the pool — what's not to love about a luxurious wedding in the California desert, especially with choices like The Parker Palm Springs or Two Bunch Palms, both in the Palm Springs area, or Furnace Creek Resort in Death Valley National Park.

«Taken at the sand dunes in Death Valley National Park just after sunset.

Perhaps one the most famous natural landscapes in all of North America, Death Valley National Park contains much more than just the road to Vegas.

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And yes to visiting the Death Valley National Park.

The closure of primary entrance routes to Death Valley National Park and Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge has limited nearly all emergency access for residents and visitors alike, compromising their safety and impacting the region's economy.

Kevin Wilson, an aquatic ecologist with the National Park Service, right, and Brandon Senger, supervisory fisheries biologist for the Nevada Department of Wildlife, center, prepare their scuba diving gear while Ambre Chaudoin, a biological science technician of fisheries at Death Valley National Park, helps Senger in preparation for a biannual count of the Devils Hole pupfish at Devils Hole in the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, April 7, 2018.

Jeffery Goldstein, fish biologist and park dive officer for Death Valley National Park, right, descends into Devils Hole for a biannual count of the Devils Hole pupfish at Devils Hole in the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, April 7, 2018.

«It's not really known how deep the water system goes,» said Jeffrey Goldstein, fisheries biologist and chief dive officer for Death Valley National Park.

Jeffery Goldstein, fish biologist and park dive officer for Death Valley National Park, prepares to leave Devils Hole after the first dive of a biannual count of the Devils Hole pupfish at Devils Hole in the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, April 7, 2018.

Death Valley National Park, CA Badwater Basin is the most extreme spot in an extreme and starkly beautiful geologic setting.

Death Valley National Park Explore 3 million acres of wilderness, including the Badwater Basin salt flats, the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet below sea level.

This image shows researchers climbing with heavy field equipment to the top of the 200m - high Eureka Dune in Death Valley National Park, Calif..

Avalanching sand from dune faces in Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert can trigger loud, rumbling «booming» or short bursts of «burping» sounds — behaving as a perfectly tuned musical instrument.

Large boulders like this one wander across the flat clay surface of Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park in California, leaving long furrows but no hint of what propelled them.

Not exact matches

The best player in college football has one more year in Death Valley, and he's aiming for a national title.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that two tornadoes and two microbursts touched down in the Hudson Valley during the intense storm system that moved through the area Tuesday and resulted in the deaths of an 11 - year - old girl in Orange County, 80 - year - old woman in Rockland County as well as two adults in Fairfield County.

The novice and seasoned geologists from the University of Rochester have gone out with the eye trackers about four times a day over their two - week field trip across California, which took them from San Francisco by the San Andreas Fault through the snowy Sierra Nevada near Yosemite National Park to the harshest area of the U.S. «Death Valley is a great place, where one can really see active geology firsthand — forces that are shaping the crust of the earth,» says geophysicist John A. Tarduno, another of the Rochester scientists.

The National Weather Service officially declared Sunday (June 30) the hottest June day in the United States ever, at 129 degrees Fahrenheit (54 degrees Celsius) in Death Valley, tying the record from 1902.

The study applied «medium to high» future emissions estimates of heat - trapping gases, as assumed by the California state government, to models designed to assess what effect climate change would have on national parks like Yosemite, Death Valley, Redwood, Joshua Tree and Sequoia.

Iknayan may have been a solitary figure in a remote part of Death Valley that day, but she is hardly the lone scientist working in the United States» 408 national parks.

It encompasses Death Valley, Joshua Tree National Park as well as communities such as Barstow and 29 Palms.

From Rick: I'm just coming off a busy, week - long vacation to the California National Parks (King's Canyon, Sequoia, Yosemite, Death Valley) plus other places of interest along the way, so I'm going to keep this week's post short.

From the arid, sun - scorched landscapes of Death Valley to the astonishing giant redwoods of Sequoia National Park and Yosemite's awe - inspiring panorama of granite domes, this adventure covers a lot of ground — and almost every type of terrain imaginable.

From the arid, sun - scorched landscapes of Death Valley to the astonishing giant redwoods of Sequoia National Park and Yosemite's awe - inspiring panorama of granite domes, this adventure co...

Scenic Highlights: Immerse yourself in the stark beauty of Death Valley, cross the stunning Sierra Nevada mountains, explore world - famous Yosemite National Park, marvel at ancient trees in Sequoia National Park, visit the world renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Inaugurated as a national park in 1994, Death Valley is in fact the largest national park in the United States, spanning an impressive 3.4 million acres.

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Stock photography of National Parks, including Yellowstone, Yosemite, Olympic, Zion, Joshua Tree, Mount Rainer, Arches, Canyonlands, Lake Clark, Katmai, Channel Islands, Redwood and Death Valley.

On Sunday, Death Valley temperatures reached 129oF, a new June record high for the United States, according to the National Weather Service.

Of course, you may also face bad weather: unending rain during the unpopular monsoon season in Asia, ridiculous levels of snowfall and closures in Yellowstone National Park, or 120 - degree days in Death Valley, for example.