In winter it is more widespread, ranging to low deserts and occasionally to towns.

Other than a single one-acre plot, it is the only commercial peach planting in the hot low deserts of California.

But refuge, where would they seek it in this low desert, without a tree, without a bush?

"It s like those waterholes in the low desert."

There was no radio contact with the lower desert and it was the kind of place where a sprained ankle could be fatal.

The mayor of this bankrupt hamlet high in the low desert insists that he is a misunderstood man.

We were all beginning to understand the lure of the unspoiled low desert, a fragile and fast-disappearing habitat.

The culture is known largely from cemeteries in the low desert.

Embarrassed, cold, abruptly frightened, she returned to the Old West, where night on the low desert was warm.

"It's like those waterholes in the low desert."