This photo gallery is from a CNPS field trip to the Mojave National Preserve which was led by the amazingly knowledgeable Jim Andre. The Preserve is a huge expanse of almost 2,500 square miles and is a great place to drive through and explore all of its little out of the way corners. No one knows it better than Jim Andre. It includes such fascinating locations as Hole-in-the Wall Canyon, Kelso Dunes, the Cinder Cone Lava Beds, Cima Dome, and the New York, Providence, Kelso and Granite Mountains. It is in the Granites that Jim oversees the Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center and where he has worked hard for many years on desert plant conservation and writing floras of the East Mojave. When you go on a Jim Andre field trip, you never know where you're going to go because he takes you to wherever the best floral displays are at the time. This is a shorter than usual gallery because many of the species we saw this time were displayed in the Mojave National Preserve September 2003 photo gallery.