Image / Managing off-road vehicles in Mojave Desert

View source image on contributor's website.

Get Citation

Have a question about this item?

Contact Owner

Item information. View source record on contributor's website.

Title: Managing off-road vehicles in Mojave Desert
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Howell, E. Bruce
Date Created and/or Issued: 1974
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated April 3, 1974 reads, "Stoddard Valley on Mojave Desert near Barstow, despite its vast openness is a continuous maze of off-road vehicle tire tracks. Federal plan for managing off-road vehicle use on desert has left it open for off-road vehicle races and closed other areas. But environmentalists and scientists say regulations for restricted areas are too vague and open to this kind of damage."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094581
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005023524
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29029
Subject: United States.--Bureau of Land Management.--California Desert District.--Northern and Eastern Mojave Planning Area
Off-road vehicles
Deserts--Effect of off-road vehicles on--California, Southern
Deserts--California, Southern
Stoddard Valley (San Bernardino County, Calif.)
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

About the collections in Calisphere

Learn more about the collections in Calisphere. View our statement on digital primary resources.

Copyright, permissions, and use

If you're wondering about permissions and what you can do with this item, a good starting point is the "rights information" on this page. See our terms of use for more tips.

Share your story

Has Calisphere helped you advance your research, complete a project, or find something meaningful? We'd love to hear about it; please send us a message.