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Centuries of erosion have created this drainage canyon through the south end of Broadwell Mesa in the Kelso Dunes Wilderness

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6942-kelso-dunes-wilderness.jpg From up on Broadwell Mesa, I look down at a sandy patch in the wash where I've been hikingThumbnailsI'm just close enough to I-40 here on Broadwell Mesa that I have cell-phone reception, so I send off a couple of text messagesFrom up on Broadwell Mesa, I look down at a sandy patch in the wash where I've been hikingThumbnailsI'm just close enough to I-40 here on Broadwell Mesa that I have cell-phone reception, so I send off a couple of text messagesFrom up on Broadwell Mesa, I look down at a sandy patch in the wash where I've been hikingThumbnailsI'm just close enough to I-40 here on Broadwell Mesa that I have cell-phone reception, so I send off a couple of text messagesFrom up on Broadwell Mesa, I look down at a sandy patch in the wash where I've been hikingThumbnailsI'm just close enough to I-40 here on Broadwell Mesa that I have cell-phone reception, so I send off a couple of text messagesFrom up on Broadwell Mesa, I look down at a sandy patch in the wash where I've been hikingThumbnailsI'm just close enough to I-40 here on Broadwell Mesa that I have cell-phone reception, so I send off a couple of text messages

What will this relatively untouched area look like 1000 years from now? Hopefully it won't be covered with solar power plants (and weeds), the kind of thing that current government likes.

Natural desert areas like this are these days seen as "wastelands" to be conquered.