Mojave

Krystian Lahage of the Mojave Desert Land Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the California desert, said his group is trying to raise awareness of the broad support for Chuckwalla.

Just over a mile east of the campground, this stream meets up with Little Rock Creek, which flows about 17 miles from the San Gabriel Mountains to the Mojave Desert.

After the passage of a $2-million bond measure by Los Angeles voters in 1925, hundreds of surveyors fanned out across the largely roadless Mojave and Sonoran deserts to take measurements and study potential routes.

The city, which sits in the Mojave desert in northern Los Angeles County, has a population of about 175,000.

Walking onstage Saturday afternoon in the Mojave Tent, Scott Shriner pumped his fist and drew a huge round of cheers from the overflow crowd of several thousand.