Mojave National Preserve
An unofficial website published by
Mindbird Maps & Books Home PageLinks
Other recommended websites
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The official National Park Service website is full of great information on activities, history, geography, resources, management, planning documents, and more. It is the site to go to for answers to most of your questions about the Preserve. The main reason I created my own site is because the official site is relatively low on graphics, and does not have as extensive a landscape and plant photo collection as I have here. There were also significant errors in its simplified plant list (which has been removed; I have a corrected and enlarged version posted on this website).
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USGS Mojave National Preserve: Geology Tour is the best government website of the area I've seen if you want to see images of the landscape. If you're not much interested in geology, view it anyway: it is not technical at all, and some photo captions don't even mention anything more geological than "mountain." Features a nice shaded relief map with clickable points which take you to numerous scattered locations around the Preserve. The images are large format and of very good to excellent quality.
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Touring the Mojave National Preserve by Bicycle is a personal travelogue of an eight-day bike trip through the area. Interesting and entertaining, illustrated with photos and maps, a well-designed site. Three are also links to several more recent bike trips there by the same author, some of them much longer.
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Southern California Wildflowers is an extensive photo site by Michael L. Charters. It is organized to be of use both by beginners and the more experienced botanist, containing an index by common name, family, and scientific name. The quality of the images is generally very good to excellent, and are of moderate size such that the site does not take too long to download if one has a dialup internet connection. Also gives habitat, blooming period, and Latin name derivations. Since Mojave National Preserve is in southern California, he includes many plants that are found within the park.
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Northern Arizona Flora is an expanding website created by the publisher of the website you now view, and features hundreds of good to excellent images of wild plants. For the more technically inclined, there is a comprehensive scientific catalog of plants arranged by family, with the distribution of each taxon noted. Beginners can just go directly to the photo image index and browse the pictures. Many of the plants in northwestern Arizona are also found in Mojave National Preserve.
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Mindbird Maps & Books (formerly buddha nature maps & books) is the publisher of this website. You can purchase detailed topographic maps of Mojave National Preserve, other desert parks, and indeed, many parks and forests across the country at the store website. Maps are described in detail, and usually are sold at discount prices. Orders can be made online, by phone, fax, mail, or (if you visit Kingman, Arizona), in person.
Click on the image at left to go directly to the "Southern California Deserts" map page, or below to go to the home page:
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Know of a website related to Mojave National Preserve you can recommend? Send me an email, and I'll give it consideration. All inclusions are based on my judgment of the site's quality; I don't do link exchanges on a quid pro quo basis. I won't include sites which I believe to be too cluttered with advertising, nor anti-government "rant" sites, but welcome those that in some way complement the celebratory attitude of this one.
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This page revised 6 May 2008.