California Desert Miracle- The Fight for Desert Parks and Wilderness Mammoth Hikers of all attitudes and

Hikers of all attitudes and abilities can enjoy the Trail through Oregon

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

645 pages with 468 color photographs

it traverses deep forest and mountain meadows

California Desert Miracle- The Fight for Desert Parks and Wilderness Mammoth Hikers of all attitudes andCalifornia 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