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The Trona Pinnacles

Tufa spires rising from the bed of the Searles Dry Lake basin.
Tufa spires rising from the bed of the Searles Dry Lake basin.

However it may appear to you, a visit to the Trona Pinnacles will be a journey into one of the most unusual geologic wonders in the California Desert.

This unique landscape consists of more than 500 tufa pinnacles rising from the bed of the Searles Dry Lake basin.  Tufa spires as high as 140 feet were formed underwater 10,000 to 100,000 years ago when Searles Lake formed a link in an interconnected chain of Pleistocene lakes stretching from Mono Lake to Death Valley.

The Trona Pinnacles were designated by the Department of the Interior as a National Natural Landmark in 1968 to protect one of the nation's best examples of tufa formation. 


Employee Profile:  Lynette Elser 

Lynette Elsner

Lynette Elser provides guidance in the development of environmental documents for renewable energy projects in the California Desert.  This is a fairly new assignment, but Lynnette has been doing environmental work in the some aspect for most of her career. Read more...


 


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BLM issues a decision to remove excess wild horses and burros from the Twin Peaks Herd Management Area to protect range conditions and wild horses

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BLM manages 15.2 million acres of public lands in California - nearly 15% of the state's land area - and 1.6 million acres in northwestern Nevada.  BLM California also administers 47 million acres of subsurface mineral estate underlying federal surface land, 2.5 million acres underlying privately owned land, and 592,000 acres of Native American tribal land where BLM has trust responsibility for mineral operations.