Wild Places
of Southern California
by Michael L. Charters
 |
Coyote Wash
Anza-Borrego State Park
 |
Looking south from Angeles Crest Highway
San Gabriel Mountains
 |
Malibu Creek State Park
Santa Monica Mountains
 |
Spiderweb
Santa Monica Mountains
 |
Rancho Satwiwa trail into Big Sycamore Canyon
Santa Monica Mountains
 |
Brand Motorway post-burn
Verdugo Mountains
 |
Big Sycamore Canyon
Santa Monica Mountains
 |
Summit of White Mountain, 14,246'
White-Inyo Range
 |
Chesebro Canyon
San Fernando Valley
 |
Conejo Open Space
San Fernando Valley
 |
Bristlecone pine forest
White-Inyo Mountains
 |
Devil's Punchbowl
West Mojave Desert
 |
Blister Beetle
Eureka Valley
 |
Granite Mountains
East Mojave Desert
 |
Golden-mantled ground squirrel
White Mountains
 |
Sunset over Kelso Dunes
Mojave National Preserve
 |
Sunset
White Mountains
 |
Moonrise over the Granites
Mojave National Preserve
 |
Dead pines
San Bernardino Mountains
 |
Andreas Canyon
Colorado Desert
 |
Big red skimmer
Indian Canyons
 |
Coastline from Backbone Trail above La Jolla Valley
Santa Monica Mountains
 |
Malibu Creek
Santa Monica Mountains
 |
View from Mishe Mokwe Trail
Santa Monica Mountains
 |
Tarantula
East Mojave Desert
 |
Mt. San Gorgonio from Black Rock Canyon
Joshua Tree National Park
 |
Along Rt. 58 between Tehachapi and Bakersfield
Kern County
 |
View from Mt. Waterman
San Gabriel Mountains
 |
Brown pelicans
Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve
 |
Living Desert
Coachella Valley
 |
Box Canyon
Mecca Hills
 |
Chumash Wilderness
Mt. Pinos
 |
Chuckwalla
Joshua Tree National Park
 |
Soda Dry Lake
Zzyzx, Mojave National Preserve
 |
Wind Wolves Preserve
Kern County
 |
Layered cliffs
Red Rock Canyon State Paek
 |
White-lined sphinx moth
Palm Springs
 |
Vernal pools
Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Preserve
 |
San Mateo Wilderness
Santa Ana Mountains
 |
Spring wildflowers in Short Canyon
Kern County
 |
Monarch butterfly
Santa Barbara County
 |
Algodones Dunes
Imperial County
 |
Mission Creek Preserve
Colorado Desert south of Morongo
 |
Spring wildflowers
Death Valley National Park east of Salsberry Pass
 |
Badwater, Death Valley National Park
282' below sea level
 |
After the Cedar fire of 2003
Laguna Mountains
 |
Calleguas Creek
Ventura County
 |
Sturtevant Falls
Big Santa Anita Canyon
 |
Rocky Oaks Pond before the rain
Santa Monica Mountains
 |
Rocky Oaks Pond after the rain
Santa Monica Mountains
 |
Inner Bay
Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve
 |
Great egret
Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve
 |
View south from Vincent Gap
Angeles Crest Highway
 |
Banded orb weaver
Santa Rosa Plateau
 |
Carpinteria Bluffs Seal Sanctuary
© 2004 Michael L. Charters Sierra Madre, CA.