RHH's photos with the keyword: feral

There are over 2000 feral burros in Death Valley National Park, the descendants of burros brought in by prospectors before Death Valley became a national park. They are a huge problem in the park since they eat the available vegetation and displace the native wildlife. This wild burro was photographed just outside the park between Rhyolite and Beatty, Nevada, in the Amargosa Valley.

Feral burros, the descendants of animals brought in by the Spanish in the 1500's, are quite common in the area of Death Valley. We saw this pair near Beatty, Nevada, on our way out of the park on April 1. We had spent the night in a rest area just inside the east entrance of the park and intended to go to an Easter service in Beatty the next day. Arriving in Beatty we found that the service was already finished and so drove on for a quiet day at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge south of Beatty and still in Nevada.