algodones dunes造句

• Located in the Yuma Desert and close to the Algodones Dunes, the road also goes through Ogilby, California.
• The 32, 240-acre North Algodones Dunes Wilderness, to the north of the area currently under revision, has been permanently closed to off-roaders.
• The Algodones Dunes, which lie in a 40-mile swath north of the Mexican border, have been a source of controversy for years.
• The environmentalists are trying to save endangered species like the Peirson's milkvetch plant, unique to the Algodones Dunes, and the desert tortoise.
• This path was selected to avoid the expensive engineering that would otherwise be required if the canal were to traverse the Algodones Dunes.
• Two notable geographic features are found in the county, the Salton Sea, at below sea level, and the Algodones Dunes, one of the largest dune fields in America.
• The "'Old Plank Road "'is a plank road in Imperial County, California that was built in 1915 as an east & ndash; west route over the Algodones Dunes.
• Glamis ( GLA-MIS ) also mis pronounced as ( GLE-MIS ) is one of a series of former Southern Pacific railroad stops along the eastern edge of the Algodones Dunes, located where the railway crosses Ogilby.
• The route crossed the Colorado River from New Mexico Territory at present day Yuma, Arizona to Fort Yuma in California, then descended into Baja California Mexico for to avoid the Algodones Dunes sand barrier in the dry southern Colorado Desert.
• "If we hadn't gotten there, they'd have torched it, " said Reid Hopkins, a ranger with the Bureau of Land Management, which controls the area, as well as the North Algodones Dunes Wilderness to the north, where no vehicles are permitted.
• After crossing the Colorado to avoid the impassable Algodones Dunes west of Yuma, Arizona, they followed the river about south ( to about the Arizona's southwest corner on the Colorado River ) before turning northwest to about today's Mexicali, Mexico and then turning north through today's Imperial Valley and then northwest again before reaching Mission San Gabriel Arc醤gel near the future city of Los Angeles, California.