Our guide was used to normal groups staying in hostels, but we were determined to spend that night on the salt flat.

Though it is di?cult to grow trees in the saline-alkali soil, the ground cover and wetland vegetation are rich and vary in response to subtle changes in the water table and PH values.

All the tours to the salt flats are really standard.

Why, having in view these white alkali-patches that chiefly characterize Nevada, paint her as a leper.

That could eventually help improve food security for the millions of people that live in dry and salty places around the world.