I got up early Sunday morning with a few hours left before I had to drive back to LAX for my flight back to New York. I was too far from any wildlife locations that I knew about so I just decided to check out the closest green area on the map to see what I could find . This brought me to Box Springs Canyon State Park and the Moreno Valley. The last thing I expected were hillsides full of wild burros. Apparently the Moreno Valley is the only place in the US where burros roam free on anything other than federal land. It’s believed that they were brought to the area from Death Valley by a cowboy some 50 years ago. The hills also happened to be covered in yellow flowers creating a nice foreground to shoot across.