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it’s been called the land that God had
forsaken long considered one of the
harshest environments on earth and for
good reason
summertime we start to hit a hundred
usually in mid-april and usually don’t
continue with that route through
mid-october in the middle of July June
July and August one hundred and twenty
easily Allen Van Valkenburg knows he’s
been a park ranger in Death Valley for
over a decade the hottest I felt was 129
the day a hit 129 I went out sat in the
in the shaded area that was outside just
to kind of think about what it felt like
and there was a slight breeze blowing
you know you think a slight breeze would
cool you down because it was in the
shade that side of me
it felt if I thought I was going to come
away being Redbirds
built that pot on the side the vast
expanses of sand and rock are seemingly
devoid like in the valleys most hostile
spot the miles and miles of salt flats
are completely parched on average the
valley gets less than two inches of rain
each year some years they don’t get any
at all
in this extreme desolate landscape life
is often hidden of course there are
common creatures bighorn sheep that live
up in the mountains coyotes snakes
spiders and other desert denizens they
all have one thing in common the ability
to sniff out water in a place that looks
bone-dry
there is water I mean surrounding the
hills and canyons of this park there are
over 500 different small seeps and
springs we are at the largest collection
of springs Ranger Charlie Callahan knows
that where there’s water there’s life
and in Death Valley there’s more water
than meets the eye it’s that ability for
both fauna and flora to survive here
that Kelley and find so remarkable there
is amazing there’s over a thousand
different species of plants found in
Death Valley there there’s several dozen
of them that are endemic that are found
nowhere else in the world and although
most of Death Valley looks exactly as it
did thousands of years ago the seeming
desolation can’t be full of surprises
it’s been called the land that God had
forsaken long considered one of the
harshest environments on earth and for
good reason
summertime we start to hit a hundred
usually in mid-april and usually don’t
continue with that route through
mid-october in the middle of July June
July and August one hundred and twenty
easily Allen Van Valkenburg knows he’s
been a park ranger in Death Valley for
over a decade the hottest I felt was 129
the day a hit 129 I went out sat in the
in the shaded area that was outside just
to kind of think about what it felt like
and there was a slight breeze blowing
you know you think a slight breeze would
cool you down because it was in the
shade that side of me
it felt if I thought I was going to come
away being Redbirds
built that pot on the side the vast
expanses of sand and rock are seemingly
devoid like in the valleys most hostile
spot the miles and miles of salt flats
are completely parched on average the
valley gets less than two inches of rain
each year some years they don’t get any
at all
in this extreme desolate landscape life
is often hidden of course there are
common creatures bighorn sheep that live
up in the mountains coyotes snakes
spiders and other desert denizens they
all have one thing in common the ability
to sniff out water in a place that looks
bone-dry
there is water I mean surrounding the
hills and canyons of this park there are
over 500 different small seeps and
springs we are at the largest collection
of springs Ranger Charlie Callahan knows
that where there’s water there’s life
and in Death Valley there’s more water
than meets the eye it’s that ability for
both fauna and flora to survive here
that Kelley and find so remarkable there
is amazing there’s over a thousand
different species of plants found in
Death Valley there there’s several dozen
of them that are endemic that are found
nowhere else in the world and although
most of Death Valley looks exactly as it
did thousands of years ago the seeming
desolation can’t be full of surprises
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