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	Black Rock Desert -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Black Rock Desert is a dry lake bed in northwestern (A state in the western United States) Nevada in the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States.
		During the lake's peak around 12,700 years ago, the desert floor was under approximately 500 feet (150m) of water.
		The desert extends for approximately 100 miles (160km) northwest from the town of (Click link for more info and facts about Gerlach-Empire) Gerlach-Empire, between the Jackson Mountains to the east and the Black Rock Range to the west.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/black_rock_desert.htm (358 words)

	The Playa- Black Rock Desert
		A desert is defined as an area with low precipitation (less than 10 inches/year) and high evaporation (due to high irradiation, wind and temperature).
		Black Rock Country is a small portion of the Great Basin and encompasses the Black Rock Desert, Hualapai Flat, Fly Hot Springs and surrounding mountain ranges with names such as Granite, Calico, Black Rock and Selenite.
		The Black Rock Desert is a silt alkaline playa, 3,848 feet above sea level, filled with silt as deep as 10,000 feet.
	www.blackrockrangers.org /desert.html (1143 words)

	Black Rock Desert. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		rise to the east; the Black Rock Range to the west.
		The desert has been the site of the Burning Man festival, a self-styled temporary community and weeklong arts festival that attracts thousands, since 1991.
		Smoke Creek Desert, to the SW of Gerlach, is an extension of Black Rock.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bl/BlackRock.html (134 words)

	Black Rock City - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Black Rock City, Nevada is an ephemeral town that exists for only one week each year during Burning Man (http://www.burningman.com/), a radical arts festival.
		Black Rock City is located in the remote Black Rock Desert about 2-3 hours north of Reno, Nevada.
		Once participants have arrived in Black Rock City, they are expected to leave their cars or other motor vehicles parked and travel around the city under their own power.
	www.wikitravel.org /article/Black_Rock_City (2816 words)

	Black Rock Desert
		Although a true desert at its core, surface water is everywhere along the basin margin in the form of springs (hot, warm, and cold) and creeks.
		The green patch in the center of the photo is wetlands surrounding Black Rock Hot Springs.
		Several hot springs lie along a linear fault trace to the west of the Black Rock Range; the most southerly of these lies to the left of this photo and was the only water source along a 100+ mile stretch of the Applegate-Lassen trail.
	www.depauw.edu /acad/geosciences/tcope/blackrock.htm (598 words)

	Black Rock Desert Wilderness Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Black Rock Desert is one of the largest, virtually undeveloped desert valley floors in the United States.
		The Black Rock Desert Wilderness is surrounded on the west by the Pahute Peak Wilderness and the North Black Rock Range Wilderness.
		Along the east edge of the Black Rock Desert are the North and South Jackson Mountains Wilderness areas.
	www.nevadawilderness.org /northwest/blackrock.htm (249 words)

	Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area
		The Desert Playa, an area stretching for more than 160,000 acres, is an ancient lake bed that is one of the flattest places in the world.
		Warm springs found in the Black Rock and High Rock are critical for threatened and endangered plants and pupfish.
		Black Rock - High Rock Emigrant Trail NCA protects a region of great historical significance for Nevada and the nation.
	www.discovernlcs.org /TheNLCS/ConservationAreas/BlackRockDesert.cfm (627 words)

	Burning Man: Wild minds flock to Nevada's Black Rock Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Black Rock City, built each year to house the Burning Man festival, is temporary and is disappearing right now, as you're reading this story.
		Black Rock rangers asked one camp -- the Capitalist Pig Camp -- to leave early in the week.
		The sounds of Black Rock City at night are haunting: Voices with operatic tones mix with a dozen different types of techno booming out of various camps and the crackle of tarps fluttering in the wind.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /lifestyle/burn07.shtml (2103 words)

	Flat, white, harsh, and altogether beautiful. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I first visited Nevada's Black Rock Desert as a participant in the Burning Man festival, and the next spring went back on my own to become a volunteer with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the federal agency that stewards the Black Rock.
		Paradoxically, by nature the Black Rock is one of the most unforgiving places imaginable, hot and dry and windy with dust-storms where you can't see your hand two feet in front of your face.
		Tracks are imprinted in the playa surface until the winter rains, when the Black Rock reverts to being the lakebed that it really is. In the spring it dries out and all the tracks are erased.
	www.mindspring.com /~mistercat/pictures/blackrock1.html (257 words)

	Black Rock Desert Wilderness - Travel and Recreation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Black Rock Desert Wilderness now contains a total of 314,829 acres and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
		For the Black Rock Desert Wilderness, this process began in 2000 when 315,700 acres were designated by Public Law 106-554.
		The Black Rock Desert Wilderness is part of the 106 million acre National Wilderness Preservation System.
	greennature.com /travel/visit4551.html (373 words)

	Black Rock Desert
		Because of the crowds, visiting the Black Rock during the annual Burning Man Festival may not be a good idea.
		The Black Rock is a two-hour drive north of Reno and still in the long, narrow Washoe County.
		The most popular attractions of the Black Rock are the hot springs surrounding the desert and the dry lakebed itself.
	www.jour.unr.edu /outpost/destinations/des.vance.blackrock.html (1131 words)

	L.L.Bean: Park Search - Black Rock-High Rock Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Black Rock Desert area is the largest playa in North America.
		Playa is a flat-floored desert basin that occasionally fills with shallow water and mud during the rainy season.
		In addition to its unique flat desert surface, the area is surrounded by wind-sculpted, clay-silt mounds and sand dunes, alluvial slopes, lakeshore terraces, foothills and mountains.
	www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/231llb.htm (371 words)

	BLM News: Legislative - S.2273, The Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon - Emigrant Trails NCA - April 26, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The history of America's western migration is written, literally, in the sands of the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon area.
		On both sides, the mountains showed often stupendous and curious-looking rocks, which at several places so narrowed the valley, that scarcely a pass was left for the camp.
		The Black Rock Desert Playa, which stretches for more than 160,000 acres, is the remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan which covered this area with 500 feet of water as recently as 60,000 years ago.
	www.blm.gov /nhp/news/legislative/pages/2000/te000426b.htm (1792 words)

	July 12 - Black Rock Desert
		After a gas fill-up, I went northeast, up onto the flat 25+ mile-long mile playa of the Black Rock Desert.
		) which are just west of Black Rock Point -- the southernmost hill in the range that divides the two "Y" branches at the northern end of the playa.
		Black Rock Springs were apparently once used as a farm.
	www.oz.net /~geoffsi/sw2001-web/index-712.htm (335 words)

	Black Rock Desert - Side Canyon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is the only absolute desert in North America, a four-hundred-square-mile dry lake bed so desolate that nothing ever grows there.
		Vast and featureless, Nevada’s Black Rock Desert defies visual measurement—much to the consternation of off-roaders who venture out onto this playa only to run out of gas before reaching the other side.
		The Black Rock Desert is a philosophical and visual meditation on an extraordinary place virtually devoid of the usual physical features one relies on for orientation and comfort.
	www.sidecanyon.com /acb1/showdetl.cfm?DID=111&Product_ID=5631 (520 words)

	Black Rock NCA - Wildlands - Sierra Club
		Today, the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon area of northern Nevada is primitive and remote.
		Canyons, playas, and mountains are all part of the remote 1.2-million-acre Black Rock Desert and High Rock Canyon region north of Reno.
		The Black Rock Desert and High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area was designated as part of the National Landscape Conservation System within the BLM.
	www.sierraclub.org /wildlands/black_rock.asp (1055 words)

	The Black Rock Desert. Excerpt. University of Arizona Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Trying to avoid the fearsome Forty Mile Desert along the more established main trail—a series of playas that so demoralized the immigrants that some are said to have died of existential exhaustion as much as of thirst—they found themselves on a death march equally as harsh, if not more so.
		The first picture we have of the Black Rock playa was made during the 1854 survey of the 38th parallel, which sought a central transcontinental railroad route across the West.
		The "mud lakes" were the Black Rock and Smoke Creek playas, flooded when the artist saw them, hardly a typical condition.
	www.uapress.arizona.edu /samples/sam1445.htm (1772 words)

	AERO-PAC - Association of Experimental Rocketry of the Pacific - Black Rock
		Black Rock is a dry lake and it gets very hot in the summer.
		In the last few years, a new hazard has appeared at Black Rock: "playa serpents." These ridges in the surface of the playa can show up unexpectedly when you're driving and give you a nasty surprise.
		A group called Friends of Blackrock that a number of AERO-PAC members belong is working to protect the Black Rock Playa and surrounding area.
	www.aeropac.org /blackrock.shtml (2052 words)

	Ian's Black Rock Pages - Black Rock Desert, Nevada
		The Black Rock Desert is possibly the largest flat surface on the face of the Earth.
		I've called Black Rock "the Kitty Hawk of the 21st Century" after the world's first amateur launch to space occurred there in May 2004.
		The Black Rock Desert in Northwestern Nevada is a perennial dry lakebed, meaning that it's dry most of the year.
	ian.kluft.com /blackrock (1421 words)

	RGJ.com - Congress passes bill protecting Black Rock Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WASHINGTON — A bill to designate 1.6 million acres of the Black Rock Desert as conservation and wilderness areas has been approved as part of a congressional budget compromise.
		To keep the landscape untarnished, the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area bill would protect nearly 690,000 acres administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
		Bryan, who is retiring this year, made the legislation his final act after efforts to protect the land began with a 1962 National Park Service report calling the area “one of the great sights of Western America.” Several efforts to create a historical landmark or conservation areas failed over the years.
	www.rgj.com /news2/stories/news/977113950.php (661 words)

	Recreation in the Black Rock Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Not to put to fine a point on it, but the Black Rock desert can be an extremely dangerous place.
		The Black Rock is part of the Black Rock Desert / High Rock Canyon / Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area (the area also includes High Rock Canyon and the surrounding mountains) and is under the control of the Bureau of Land Management.
		The Black Rock is big enough that this shouldn't really cause a problem.
	troutsky.marchordie.org /playamates (1206 words)

	Apogee Photo: Bob Hitchman's More Great Photo Locations in North America
		The Black Rock Desert was the site of the 1997 breaking of the world land speed record at over 763 mph—faster than the speed of sound.
		Leaving the Black Rock Desert, I headed northwest across some very wide-open spaces—miles and miles of sage-covered hills that are definitely of volcanic origin.
		I was climbing up and out of the Great Basin—that great western desert where all the rivers flow toward the center of the basin, soak into the sand, and evaporate.
	www.apogeephoto.com /nov2001/hitchman1_112001.shtml (1113 words)

	University of Arizona Press - The Black Rock Desert
		Groping to describe why the desert pulls with such force, there is temptation to defer: 'You just have to go there.' Fox, instead, takes us there.
		Fox's contemplative essays bring us news of both the natural desert and its cultural occupation, from the explorations of John C. Frémont to the exaltations of Burning Man.
		William L. Fox is the author of The Void, the Grid and the Sign: Traversing the Great Basin; View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape; and Reading Sand and numerous volumes of poetry.
	www.uapress.arizona.edu /books/bid1445.htm (565 words)

	Black Rock Desert on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Onward, Christian soldier As the vicar of Baghdad, Canon Andrew White has been robbed by gunmen and summoned to supper with Saddam's sons.
		The desert's open veins: native rights and water fights in Albuquerque.
		The romance of Morocco -- from Imperial Cities to desert kasbahs.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/blackr1ock.asp (307 words)

	AllRefer.com - Black Rock Desert, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Black Rock Desert, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
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		Black Rock Desert, arid region of lava beds and alkali flats, NW Nev., in Toiyabe National Forest, stretching c.70 mi (110 km) NE from Gerlach.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BlackRock.html (192 words)

	AERO-PAC - Association of Experimental Rocketry of the Pacific - To Black Rock
		AERO-PAC - Association of Experimental Rocketry of the Pacific - To Black Rock
		Black Rock is a "dry" lake about 100 miles north of Reno Nevada.
		Look for a pair of rock columns on your right.
	www.aeropac.org /gettingtobr.shtml (906 words)

	NME.COM - Reviews - Nevada Black Rock Desert
		But the best effect of this week-long desert gathering is that it ups the ante for the level of stimuli, generosity, and just plain weirdness that you expect in your day-to-day life.
		Burning Man's creation myth can be traced to the mid-'80s, when artist Larry Harvey built a man-like wooden sculpture and, to the delight of his friends, set it aflame on a California beach (some romantics say he was commemorating a lost love, though the more likely explanation was that it just looked cool).
		The result is an electric, freewheeling carnival atmosphere mapped onto a well-organised metropolis called Black Rock City; it's shaped like a horseshoe and can take up to two hours to walk from end to end.
	www.nme.com /reviews/2795.htm (591 words)

	Black Rock Desert. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Black Rock Desert, arid region of lava beds and alkali flats, Humboldt and Pershing cos., NW Nev., in Toiyabe Natl.
		The Quinn R. sinks into the desert from NE.
		in NW corner of Pershing co. is sometimes known as Granite Creek Desert.
	www.bartleby.com /69/5/B07105.html (104 words)

	Review: The Black Rock Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although it is not a poetry book, The Black Rock Desert was written in a lyrical language.
		There are exactly sixteen fl and white photographs in the book and they are really aesthetic.
		Fox and Klett wanted to have a nice time by making a short trip in the Black Rock Desert and afterward decided to write a book about their trip.
	egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj18/uguz1.html (325 words)

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