Black Rock Desert
In World War II, of the Black Rock Desert was used for a USAAF aerial gunnery training range, and post-war, the north region of the United States Navy's "Lovelock Aerial Gunnery Range" was in the Black Rock Desert area (the "Black Rock Desert Gunnery Range" had closed by 1964). In 1979, a fossilized Columbian Mammoth was found along the side of the lakebed.