Jet Rent - January 17, 2013
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Monthly archives: January, 2013
Castle Dome Mine Museum
Quietly nestled in the Kofa Wildlife National Refuge in Yuma County Is Castle Dome Mine Museum. Castle Dome, 40 miles northeast of Yuma, contains the longest-working mine in Arizona. The museum is so authentically rich in history and insights that this will give you a wonderful view of what life was like when they mined.
- January 16, 2013
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Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park
Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park, was used by the US Army to store and distribute supplies for all the military posts in Arizona, and in some areas as posts in Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Texas. A six-month supply of clothing, food, ammunition, and other goods was kept at the depot at all times.
- January 15, 2013
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Riding Motorcycle = Forever Young!
If you ever heard the words mid life crisis chances are you have a few expensive object that come to mind like a sports car or Harley Motorcycle. Interestingly enough there is more to the youthful desire to riding a bike. A study was led by motorcycle enthusiast Ryuta Kawashima through Yamaha Motor Company and a Tohoku
- January 14, 2013
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Adair Park | Shooting Range
Adair Park is a public outdoor range facility and it is located 15-miles NE of Yuma on Hwy 95 (16th st.) Turn off about 3/4 mile past Gila River bridge to the west. In 1967 the Bureau of Reclamation dedicated to Yuma about 340 acres for a firearms and archery target shooting range and other recreational facilities.
- January 14, 2013
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Fun Fact Friday | Star Wars while they filmed in Buttercup
“Building the set at Yuma was an enormous project… Over Thanksgiving holiday when we first erected the fence around the set, there was a reported crowd of 35,000 dune buggy enthusiasts there. We needed to camouflage ourselves from the public and to schedule our shooting to avoid stray dune buggies creeping into a shot in
- January 14, 2013
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Fun Fact Friday | Star Wars Filming Near Yuma
The filmmakers decided to stay in sand dunes around Yuma for making Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Buttercup Dunes, California was used as the filming site for the Great Pit of Carkoon sequence on the Dune Sea. Filming took place in April 1982, though construction had taken place over the previous five
- January 14, 2013
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Sandfood
Pholisma sonorae, also known as Sandfood, is a rare and unusual species of flowering plant endemic to the Sonoran Deserts to the west of Yuma, Arizona. Sand food lacks chlorophyll and is parasitic on roots of desert perennials, usually shrubs. The Sandfood which grows in Imperial Sand Dunes and Algodones Dunes , its fleshy stem extending up to two meters-six feet below
- January 14, 2013
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Desert Bighorn Sheep
The desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) is a subspecies of BigHorn Sheep. The Desert BigHorn Sheep lives in the desert Southwest regions of the Arizona, California and in the northern regions of Mexico. The characteristics and behavior of desert bighorn sheep generally follow those of other bighorn sheep, except for adaptation to the lack of water in the desert:
- January 9, 2013
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Imperial Sand Dune Cleanup Scheduled January 19, 2013
United Desert Gateway has annual and semi annual clean ups. They have open invites to any off-road enthusiasts and or volunteers for the 16th annual Sand Dunes Cleanup on Jan. 19, 2013. The annual cleanup should be an important date on any off-road enthusiast’s calendar. Cleaning of the dunes is vital to the sustainability of
- January 8, 2013
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Thousands Visit the Imperial Sand Dunes on New Year's 2013
The numbers are in! The El Centro Bureau of Land Management park ranger station has the final numbers for Imperial Sand Dunes visitors for the 2013 New Year’s holiday weekend. 117,730 visitors came to the popular riding area. They were greeted by cold and partially rainy weather at the dunes that weekend. The number was
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