THE DESERT TORTOISE AND EARLY PEOPLES OF THE WESTERN DESERT This article explains the role of the Desert Tortoise in Native American cultures.

QUARTZSITE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION This is the organization that created one of the largest tourism magnets in Arizona twenty-three miles east of Blythe on I-10.

MOJAVE DESERT ECOREGION Dedicated to a description and the importance of ecology to the Mojave Desert.

Bannana Yucca Plant

A DESERT GLOSSARY Want to know what a bajada, or a hogback are? You can find the answers at this website.

THE CALIFORNIA/ARIZONA MANEUVER AREA A brief history of the largest military installation in the world, the 18,000 square mile CAMA around Blythe during World War II.

MOHAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE Desert ecology is this site's subject.

Bobcat

ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE OFF-PAVEMENT TRAVEL PART 1 As the title indicates, a site offering information about safe and legal use of vehicles to explore our deserts

PETROGLYHPHS.US Here's a gallery of desert rock art

A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE DESERT TORTOISE I can't tell you anything about this site that the title doesn't.

Ironwood Tree (contact with sawdust can cause irritation and illness)

JOJOBA A website encouraging the cultivation of this bean that's native to this area.

ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE OFF-PAVEMENT TRAVEL PART 2 The sequel, we've all been waiting for, to the site several links above

DESERT NATURAL HISTORY A brief natural history of the Sonoran Desert.

Horned Lizard

INVASIVE SPECIES We're being invaded! This website tells of the invaders.

ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE OFF-PAVEMENT TRAVEL PART 3 The final episode in this off road saga

DESERT PEOPLE OF THE PAST This is a summary of prehistoric native desert peoples.

Creosote Bush

MEXICAN AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE SONORAN DESERT Latinos are already well over 50% of our population. Our cultures rapidly are permeating each other.

DESERT SKYDIVING Here's and interesting article for those with an interest in this sport

MISSION CHURCHES OF THE SONORAN DESERT Explore these early places of worship in our area.

Jack Rabbit

A DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHIC DATABASE OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOJAVE DESERT This is technical but understandable.

ARIZONA SONORA DESERT MUSEUM Great graphics of various animal species native to our desert.

BALLOON ABOVE THE DESERT This commercial website explains a little about this great experience

Pronghorn

THE INTERNET NATURALIST This is a website designed to bring the wonder of The Sonoran Desert flora and fauna to the internet visitor.

SAND CARVED DESIGNS A commercial website offering an assortment of merchandise with images of desert petroglyphs. While nowhere near the desert, they're very much desert related.

SELECT EDIBLE PLANTS OF THE SONORAN DESERT This is an illustrated list, but no recipies.

Stinkbug

THE SONORAN DESERT PROJECT INDEX This website attempts to give an overview of the entire Sonoran Desert.

ANZA BORREGO FLOWERS This website offers great photographic images of wildflowers from this remote desert area. You'll never again think of the desert as barren after viewing this site.

A REGIONAL OVERVIEW A site dedicated to the uniqueness of the Sonoran Bioregion.

African Killer Bee (Each insect is mildly poisonus, but collectively they can be deadly)

A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SONORAN DESERT This is a nature study in the Sonoran Desert, a study of the flora and fauna.

HELL, CALIFORNIA was buried when they constructed I-10 in the 1960s. It was about thirty miles west of Blythe. About forty miles east is Hope, Arizona. The local Greyhound Depot manager used to say Blythe was half way between Hope and Hell. This site's about the town of Hope.

BUFFALO SOLDIERS AND THE MESCALERO APACHES IN THE GUADALUPES This is a brief history of these black cavalrymen and their conflict with Arizona Native Americans.

Beaver Tail Cactus

BIRD WATCHING AT THE SALTON SEA WILDLIFE REFUGE This is another great area to pursue this interesting hobby.

AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURE A snapshot of Black culture in early Arizona.

WILD BURROS This is a short article on these animals that were so important to the development of the West.

GLYPHS AND OTHER COOL STUFF is a site dedicated to petroglyphs, many of them around Blythe and the Palo Verde Valley.

California Fan Palm Tree

SIGHTINGS A UK pilot films UFO in near miss above the Mojave Desert.

QUARTZSITE ARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE'S homepage. This small town about twenty-two miles east of Blythe on I-10, grows during snowbird season to well over 150,000.

MOJAVE DESERTSCRUB Habitat description,status and importance.

Field Cricket

A SMALL ASSORTMENT OF MAPS relating to eastern Arizona, just across the Colorado River from Blythe.

MULE CANYON AND MULE TANK PERTROGLYPHS is another site telling of this Native American rock art

DESERT EXPLORATION This is an extensive website relating to safely exploring our deserts with a four wheel drive vehicle

Giant Crab Spider

DESERT FLORA Here's beautiful desert photography in many galleries.

GUIDE TO MEDICINAL AND EDIBLE PLANTS If you're ill or just hungry, this site will explain how to solve your problem. It also has preparation instructions.

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK Great photography from this new national park.

MIDLAND, CALIFORNIA This website offers a gallery of seventeen photographs taken in Midland. It's a fond remembrance of that U.S. Gypsum town about twenty-two miles northwest of Blythe. Nothing is left but a few walls, foundations, and this little girl's memories. When I arrived in Blythe, it was a thriving town of about 2,000.

Gambel's Quail

THE DESERT TORTOISE-A NATURAL HISTORY The Arizona Sonora Desert Museum's Tortoise Adoption Program brings you this informative website.

THE LEGEND OF THE MOJAVE DESERT'S LOST SHIPS Throughout the desert southwest there are legends of Spanish and even Viking ships that sailed into the vast lake that once occupied the Coachella and Imperial Valleys, and were stranded by receding waters. This is one of those legends.

VANISHED ARIZONA: MY RECOLLECTIONS OF ARMY LIFE Here's an online edition of one of the best books ever written about life as a cavalry wife in the nineteenth century. Much of it relates to Ehrenberg, Arizona, just across the river from what would one day be Blythe.

Cat's Claw

THE DESERT BIGHORN This a good article on these sheep. I've occasionally seen these animals within a few miles of Blythe in Arizona.

QUARTZSITE CEMETARY An excellent web page about the Quartzsite Cemetary about twenty-five miles east of Blythe. It's another "boot hill" still in use today.

TREASURE GALLEON OF THE MOJAVE DESERT Another tale of a ship marooned in our desert by receding water.

Striped Skunk

THE SALTON SEA, CALIFORNIA'S OVERLOOKED TREASURE This is an excellent history of the Salton Sea.

THE MOVE TO POSTON One Japanese American tells of he and his family's relocation, during World War II, to the Poston Internment Camp a few miles northeast of Blythe.

FASCINATING FACTS One obscure desert fact displayed and updated daily.

Paintbrush

ALAMO LAKE is a low desert resort area about a ninety minute drive northwest of Blythe. It's well worth the trip.

DESERT QUAIL Here's an essay on this bird that's so common in the Blythe area.

LOST SHIPS OF THE DESERT An article about several ships that were lost in the lake that once covered the Imperial and Coachella Valleys.

Ground Dove

DIRECTORY OF RV PARKS in Eastern Arizona. This tells about some little known but very popular rv parks .

ROCK ART IN JOSHUA TREE Here's an interesting illustrated article about nature's art, natural rock formations that resemble animals.

LAST VOYAGE OF THE CONTENT This is a very different kind of ship lost in the desert tale.

Oleander Bush (very poisonous)

LOST SHIPS OF THE DESERT The receding waters of the inland desert sea claim more victims.

BRENDA ARIZONA like many Arizona "ghost towns" is still very much alive. Here's a brief description.

SPRING RATTLES IN This is probably everything you want to know about rattlesnakes.

White Lined Sphinx Moth

WELCOME TO THE FIRST AUSTRIAN CACTUS WEBSITE Hundreds of great cactus pix, and much information. Besides all that, I think the concept of a cactus website originating in Austria is unique enough to deserve this link. It's just great.

RIVERSIDE COUNTY'S information relating to the Desert Communities Project Area, East Blythe Community Sub Area Redevelopment Program

GREASEWOOD, FLOWER OF THE DESERT Greasewood is my very favorite wood. This website explains why.

Buckhorn Cholla

DETERMINATION OF & GROWTH RATE OF DESERT VARNISH: APPLICATION TO DATING PETROGLYPHS An interesting discussion of how the age of petrographs is determined.

JERKWATER CANOE AND KAYAK gives us sightseeing tips for conoeing the Lower Colorado River

THE LA PAZ REGIONAL HOSPITAL is another fine medical facility on the Lower Colorado River. It's about a thirty-five minute drive from Blythe in Arizona. Click here to learn about it.

RETURN TO

Western Burrowing Owl

BLYTHE CALIFORNIA This website offers a short history, a few facts and lots of pictures of, where else . . . Blythe California!

GOLD PROSPECTORS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA'S Blythe Chapter offers this website epousing public use for public lands. . . sounds reasonable to me!

GLAMIS 2001 A traveler relates his trip to the Imperial Dunes at Glamis, and the problems he experienced getting there.

Staghorn Cholla

GOLD FEVER IN THE DESERT Here's a website dedicated to the never ending quest for desert gold

PARKER, ARIZONA is a small thriving city about a forty minute drive up river from Blythe. Learn about it here.

LAGUNA DIVERSION DAM With its construction in 1923, Ehrenberg, Arizona and Blythe, California no longer had access to paddle wheel steamboats from the Gulf Of California. Read about this historic dam.

Lesser Sandhill Crane

THE ANGLO AMERICANS A brief history of this aggressive group is offered.

BLYTHE RESTAURANT GUIDE All Blythe restaurants are listed in this directory.

RIVERSIDE COUNTY DESERT & RIVER REGIONAL PARKS Here's a brief summary of what's offered at each of the shoreline parks in The Palo Verde Valley.

Saguaro Cactus

SONORAN DESERT PICTURES Great photography.

W. R. BYRON AIRPORT in Blythe, during World War II was Morton Air Academy, and trained B17 and B24 pilots. Most of the old buildings still stand. It's now privately owned. Here's the air navigation information.

THE DESERT RAT SCRAP BOOK #1 More articles and stories about the desert and its dwellers.

Western Mastiff Bat

NATIVE AMERICAN DESERT PEOPLES Here's a brief description of each of the tribal groups inhabiting our area.

AT&T BLYTHE LONG LINE STATION Here's, perhaps, more than you want to know about this subject

DESERT RAT SCRAPBOOK #2 Assorted stories and articles relating to our desert area.

Desert Scorpion

VISIT THE GIRL SCOUTS of Blythe, California

DESERT HEALTHLINK'S BLYTHE resource page with names, phone numbers, and addresses of various healthcare resources in the Blythe area.

DESERT FISHES COUNCIL Here's descriptions and pictures of fishes that are native to the desert areas of North America.

Rattlesnake Weeds

DESERT FLORA & FAUNA Natural history and photographs of various desert plants and animals are offered by this website.

JERE ALLAN'S INSURANCE Here's the website of one of Blythe's leading insurance purveyors of insurance.

SONORAN DESERT EDITION OF FLORA AND FAUNA NEWS The subject of this website changes with each new edition of the publication.