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Wind sculpture on Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve
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Fig. 1Wind sculpture on Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve

Photo: Joshua Tree National Park · Public domain

Landform

A singing dune sea under the Providence Mountains — living sand the preserve still keeps, not Death Valley’s Mesquite Flat.

Field note

The dunes boom when the slope slides. Kelso is the old depot. This plate is Kelso Dunes in Mojave National Preserve, not Death Valley and not Great Sand Dunes.

Kelso is a singing dune sea in Mojave National Preserve, under the Providence Mountains. Kelso is the old depot. This plate is the preserve dunes, not Death Valley and not Great Sand Dunes.

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Stamp each view as you reach it; the plate seals when every one is inked.

A private leaf

Prints from Kelso Dunes


Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

The prints

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