What does BRD stand for?

From the Black Rock Desert to the Shoshone Mountains to Lake Mead there is so much more for visitors to explore than many realize.

Although a natural phenomenon, Fly Geyser, located in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada (above right) was also partially caused by human activity.

The Bloodhound Project is led by Richard Noble, who oversaw the team which set the existing record of 763 mph in the Black Rock desert of Nevada 11 years ago.

Roger Farschon, incident commander for the federal Bureau of Land Management, said the dust storm on the Black Rock Desert about 110 miles north of Reno began early Saturday afternoon and continued into the evening.

HEAVY DUSTING IN THE DESERT MYKLY "Mr Man" Hardy (left) and Luna, from Santa Monica, California, relax after a dust storm at the annual Burning Man arts festival held in the Black Rock Desert, in Gerlach, Nevada.

In "Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning man Photography", Barbara Traub has compiled a collection that represents and presents a photographic record of a decade of Burning Man celebrations at the Black Rock Arts Festival held annual in the dry alkali flats of northwest Nevada's Black Rock Desert which runs for about a week and culminates over the Labor Day weekend.

Harelson, a former Grants Pass insurance agent, was convicted in 1996 of stealing artifacts and the mummified remains of two Indian children from Elephant Mountain Cave in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

Eventually, I hit the Black Rock Desert at the fantastically unimpressive town of Empire and get snarled in a traffic jam, heading towards a 500ft-high mushroom cloud of dust.