Civet Cat Canyon (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Civet Cat Canyon is a 5-mile long large drainage of the Cactus Range, located on north Pahute Mesa, Nye County, Nevada, on the Nevada Test and Training Range managed by Nellis Air Force Base. The Civet Cat Canyon road has become an integral passageway for personnel assigned to mission-related field work. At the intersection of Ranges 71 and 76, the canyon narrows to a view of a prehistoric and historic archaeological site that utilized the volcanic basalt canyon walls in an atypical process,...