To the east of the Mecca Hills Wilderness and southeast of Joshua Tree National Park lie the Chuckwalla Mountains. The Chuckwallas are more or less continuous with the Little Chuckwalla Mountains; together these ranges form an imposing range of mountains separating the Interstate-10 corridor from desert areas further south. Despite their proximity to the heavily traveled Interstate-10, the Chuckwallas carry with them an almost certainty of solitude and quiet.
Welcome to the Wilderness Project
The Wilderness Project is my photographic documentation of the federally-designated wilderness areas in Riverside County, where I live in southern California. In addition to several desert wilderness areas created by the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 (CDPA), Riverside County is also home to wildernesses in sky island mountain ranges like the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mountains, as well as sage scrub habitats like the Agua Tibia Wilderness, and I will photograph these as well. The goal of the project is to celebrate the diversity of landscapes we have set aside to protect, and to show them to people who may not be aware they exist.