Piute Creek & Fort Piute in California
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Sources of surface water are extremely rare in the Mojave Desert, as might be expected, and a perennial creek is anomalous indeed. Unsurprisingly, this occurrence was of extreme importance both for wildlife and humans. The source of the water, which causes an incongruous lush green watercourse along this otherwise unprepossessing desert canyon, is groundwater out of the sediments filling Lanfair Valley to the west. A fault zone through the Piute Range, along Piute Creek, provides a conduit for t
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