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Sagebrush Grasslands at 1750 to 2150 meters of elevation cover almost 50% of the Great Basin Desert. The rolling nature of the ground gave us the feeling of sailing on an ocean!
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Located in Western Nevada and struggling not to become a ghost (fossil?) town, Ione is on the track leading to the ichthyosaurs...
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Shopping in Ione, in one of many historic buildings.
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A fish market in Germany? Not at all! Nevada hosts one of the world's most famous fossil sites for ichthyosaurs, those ocean predators from the early Jurassic era.
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South of Hawthorne, the Walker track crosses the Sierra and leads to Eastern California.
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