Things I wish I had known before I moved here.... (Las Vegas: home, art)

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by Momzilla

I still have yet to see a burro - dammit!

You've got to get out of the city! Have you explored other beautiful sites in the region...like Red Rock Canyon?

[Lola Granola]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

You've got to get out of the city! Have you explored other beautiful sites in the region...like Red Rock Canyon?

We've been to Red Rock a bunch of times and we haven't seen any burros. No mountain goats or wild horses or anything.

Lots of little lizards, though, and one rabbit.

Seriously, where are the burros???

[jfkIII]

That's one place I saw them...the other was up by Valley of Fire NP.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by notn8tive

No, Las Vegas' signs are green, with envy for Henderson. Look at our Parks & Rec, schools (some are bad I know, but most are good), and traffic. We whip Vegas' butt. But our signs are actually faded beyond reading, unless they have been replaced with the pretty ones with the City Seal.

And the manure factory is probably the pig farm in North Las Vegas, that used to be miles from anything but is now surrounded by homes/schools and people complaining about the smell. With the cost of land, at least those pigs are very rich now.

The manure factory reference is a local joke, but if you haven't been here very long you wouldn't get it. Henderson used to smell like rotten eggs from the Titanium plant. Before the US 95 freeway you had to drive by there on Boulder Highway to go south, and people would speed up to get past the smell (topping out at Railroad Pass at over 100mph was a rite of passage). So lounge show comedians would frequently make reference to the Henderson manure plant in their acts. Always got a laugh from the locals. BTW: Lake Mead just a little west of Water Street was called the LA Highway at one time. The Strip was also called the Old LA Highway.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by Lola Granola

We've been to Red Rock a bunch of times and we haven't seen any burros. No mountain goats or wild horses or anything.

Lots of little lizards, though, and one rabbit.

Seriously, where are the burros???

The burros are frequently eating along the highway near the exit gate, and you'll always see people stopped to look at them and risking getting their guts kicked out; but they are all over out there, as well as in most of Nevada. Just north of Beatty you can see large herds of them off the highway. Just as you are coming into Beatty from the south you have to watch out for them on the highway. There are lots of wild horses out at red Rock and other areas too. My buddy sees burros out his back door in the Red Rock country club. Sees Bobcats and coyotes too. You won't see mountain goats anywhere, but you will see Desert Big Horn Sheep in several places such as Red Rock Canyon, Lake Mead, and of course, the Desert Big Horn Range that you access by an improved dirt road to the east of US 95 north near the Kyle Canyon turnoff. They are hard to spot unless on a ridge as they blend in to the terrain and are usually so far away. Next time you go take binocs and look up high on the side of cliffs below the ridge. BTW: the Big Horn Sheep is not a sheep, it is a goat, so calling them mountain goat is not really wrong. To further confuse the issue, the thing we refer to as a Mountain Goat is not a goat, it is a sheep. Class dismissed.

[billeethakid]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

Billee, Billee, Billee. Burrows are holes in the ground where trolls live. Burros are the critters that it's illegal to stop and feed or otherwise mess with. Something for your pre-Vegas education; Burros should not be encouraged to come up to cars as it is not only dangerous for people, it is dangerous for the burro. When they wonder out in the highway where people are flying by at 80 MPH somebody's gonna end up dead. Besides they get aggressive when they expect to get a treat. People get bitten and/or kicked.

Sorry about the spelling. But how can you resist taking pictures when one comes to you while pumping gas? They seemed to be friendly creatures...

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by billeethakid

Sorry about the spelling. But how can you resist taking pictures when one comes to you while pumping gas? They seemed to be friendly creatures...

Really? Where were you pumping gas that those burros walked up to you? I thought the pix looked like Red Rock Canyon. BTW, we've all done it but it's a more serious protential problem now with more traffic and more burros.

[verynicebecky]

I'm all for more burros and less traffic!

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by verynicebecky

I'm all for more burros and less traffic!

You want to trade your car for a burro? I dunno...a horse maybe, but I think you mostly lead a burro. When I was doing a lot of backpacking I would have loved a burro to carry my stuff.

[jfkIII]

just curious...is a newborn burro called a burrito?