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A Desert Place
NOVA, 1976 - 56 Minutes

This is a film about a year in the life of the Sonoran Desert that stretches across the Southwestern quarter of Arizona. From winter snow squalls to searing summer heat, to summer lightning and flash floods, the film follows the remarkable life forms that have adapted to survive in one of North America's harshest and most unforgiving environments.

Producers: John Borden/Neil Goodwin
Directors: John Borden/Neil Goodwin
Sales & Distribution Info: Peace River Films
Stock Footage: Peace River Films

Stock Footage Subject Matter
  • aerials of the desert
  • animals
  • Arivaipa Canyon
  • Arizona
  • birds
  • cactus wren
  • cholla
  • deer
  • desert iguana
  • ecology
  • egg
  • erosion
  • evolution
  • feeding
  • flash flood
  • Gila monster
  • Gila woodpecker
  • javelina
  • landscapes
  • life cycle
  • lightning
  • lizards
  • mammals
  • mesquite
  • Mexico
  • monsoon storm
  • mourning dove
  • paloverde
  • peccary
  • plants
  • predation
  • prickly pear
  • round tail ground squirrel
  • saguaro
  • sidewinder rattlesnake
  • Sonora
  • Sonoran Desert
  • spade foot toad
  • spring
  • summer
  • tadpole
  • thunder storm
  • tiger lizard
  • Tucson
  • vultures
  • western diamondback rattlesnake
  • winter