One Man's Trash...

Littlerock, CA -- A friend leaves an old, flattened tin can behind for someone else to discover. Here in the desert, due to the heat and relatively dry air, metal and other materials last longer, giving us litter hunters something to find other than insects, reptiles and tumble weeds.

Urban Decay and the Beholder

The Mojave Desert is blessed with litter. Yes, litter! Since our deserts are so hot and dry, old discards from the late 1800s through the 1970s are better preserved and considered and often demand good money to the collector. I like to think we are lucky to have abandoned buildings, old soda cans and original mining tools laying around the ground. The trick is where to look....