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The Round Valley area of Mojave National Preserve includes quite a bit of private land

4016-black-canyon.jpg Coyote melon grows on the shoulder of Kelbaker Road just north of KelsoThumbnailsA final glimpse of the Old Dad Mountain block as I get on with the trudge up Jackass CanyonCoyote melon grows on the shoulder of Kelbaker Road just north of KelsoThumbnailsA final glimpse of the Old Dad Mountain block as I get on with the trudge up Jackass CanyonCoyote melon grows on the shoulder of Kelbaker Road just north of KelsoThumbnailsA final glimpse of the Old Dad Mountain block as I get on with the trudge up Jackass CanyonCoyote melon grows on the shoulder of Kelbaker Road just north of KelsoThumbnailsA final glimpse of the Old Dad Mountain block as I get on with the trudge up Jackass CanyonCoyote melon grows on the shoulder of Kelbaker Road just north of KelsoThumbnailsA final glimpse of the Old Dad Mountain block as I get on with the trudge up Jackass Canyon

Someone's windmill and water tanks dominate this view with Table Mountain in the background. Most of this area burned in the 2005 brush fires here, and I've read that a fire torched the mesa on top of Table Mountain back in the 1980s.