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Wild West - America's Great FrontierDesert HeartlandsIn pictures...

Discover the amazing ways that nature survives in an extremely testing land.

  • During times of plenty some honey-pot worker ants (Myrmecocystus spp) become living larders, storing processed nectar.
  • Sunrise over the Grand Canyon
  • Coyotes (Canis latrans) manage to survive even in the scorching hot Death Valley in California
  • Gila monsters (Heloderma suspectum) are the largest living native reptiles in North America, growing up to 2 feet long
  • Regal Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma solare) live in the deserts of SW USA and northern Mexico
  • Gila woodpeckers (Melanerpes uropygialis) drill nest holes in the trunks and larger branches of the Saguaro cactus
  • Sagauaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea) are the largest cacti in the United States, standing up to 50 feet tall
  • Monument Valley in Utah and Arizona, USA
  • The high deserts of Nevada are home to the largest mustang (Equus ferus caballus) population in America
  • A forest of Saguaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea) at dusk
  • Cowboys rounding up wild desert mustangs
  • Delicate Arch is a 65-foot-tall free-standing natural arch

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