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Title
Damage done to the desert pavement, 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, "Richard E. Gutting, Jr., kneeling, attorney for Environmental Defense Fund, and UC Riverside anthropology professor Sylvia Broadbent, examine off-road vehicle dislocation of 'desert pavement,' a dark, rocky covering on desert floor which takes thousands of years to form but is important to the natural balance of desert life. Light swath was made by off-road vehicle race."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00094577
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005022851
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28968
Subject
Gutting, Richard E
Broadbent, Sylvia M
University of California, Riverside--Faculty
Environmental Defense Fund
United States.--Bureau of Land Management.--California Desert District.--Northern and Eastern Mojave Planning Area
Deserts--Effect of off-road vehicles on--California, Southern
Off-road vehicles
Deserts--California, Southern
Anthropologists--United States
Lawyers--United States
College teachers--California--Riverside
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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