Eastern Mojave Vegetation Tom Schweich
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Eastern Mojave Vegetation | Cedar Canyon Road - Mojave National Preserve |
| Tom Schweich |
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Mojave Road west of Cedar Canyon. | Mojave RoadThis plaque, and the road behind it, are portions of the historic Mojave Road.
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| | Other Articles: Kelso Cima Road: at Cedar Canyon Road
Junction:
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| Locations: Leppy Water (Tank).
Leppy Water (Tank). | |  Curcurbita palmata along Cedar Canyon Road.
Coyote Melon (Curcurbita
palmata) along Cedar Canyon Road. This photograph was taken in September 1998, after a very wet summer.
| |  Rattlesnake on Cedar Canyon Road.
Rattlesnake along the lower portion of Cedar Canyon Road. This photograph was taken in April, 1999, and this snake was very aggressive, opposite of the snake seen below.
| | Literature Cited: Other Articles: Routes to Water: at Cedar Cyn Rd Junction: Road to Thomas Place,
Death Valley Mine, and Cima.
| Thompson's (1921) route between Cima and Fenner follows this road past the Death Valley Mine. | Other Articles: Routes to Water: near Cedar Cyn Road descends into Cedar Canyon.
| | Literature Cited: Cedar Canyon Road is
the upper portion of the elevational gradient studied by Yeaton, et al. (1985). This little valley south of Cedar Canyon Road is at 1525 m elevation, the elevation of the next-to-highest of Yeaton, et al.'s (1985) plots.
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| Other Articles: Field Notes: 16-Oct-05 in Cedar Canyon Locations: Cedar Canyon. View west into Cedar Canyon.
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| Other Articles: Field Notes: 16-Oct-05 in Cedar Canyon
Burned Joshua tree in Cedar Canyon. |
| Other Articles: Black Canyon Road: at Cedar Cyn Rd Junction: Black Canyon Road,
west into Kelso Valley to Kelso-Cima Road, or east past Rock Springs into Lanfair Valley.
| |  Unknown fungi on telephone road in Cedar Canyon.
Undetermined fungi along telephone
road in Cedar Canyon, near west end of Pinto Mountain. |
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Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 in Cedar Cyn
The south face of Pinto Mountain as seen from Cedar Canyon road. This photo was taken after the Hackberry Complex Fire.
| | Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 at Pinto Mountain Locations: Cedar Canyon. Cedar Canyon and the road as seen
from the south face of Pinto Mountain. |
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Locations: Cedar Canyon.
| |  Peach Springs Tuff, Winkler Formation, and Wild Horse Mesa Tuff on the south side of Pinto Mountain.
View of Winkler Formation on the
south side of Pinto Mountain. The lower unit on the left is Peach Springs Tuff. The middle unit, just right of center, is Winkler Formation. The volcanic unit in the upper right is Wild Horse Mesa Tuff.
| | Other Articles: Eastern Mojave Geology: 520000 Locations: Cedar Canyon.
View of an outcrop of the Winkler Formation on the south side of Pinto Mountain, with Cedar Canyon in the background. The dark ledge in the lower right corner of the photograph is the top of the Winkler Formation. The Winkler Formation also crops out as the light-colored rocks in the middle distance. The rocks above the Winkler Formation are the Hole-in-the-Wall Tuff.
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| Other Articles: Swertia albomarginata:
at Pinto Mountain Another view of the same outcrop.
The Winkler Formation is seen in the lower left. The Hole-in-the-Wall Tuff is above.
| A few stakes marking location of some Swertia albomarginata can be seen in the lower right corner. |  Two burros (Equus assinus) along Cedar Canyon Road
Two burros (Equus assinus)
along Cedar Canyon Road, under a Utah Juniper (Juniperus osteosperma). Round Valley is in the background.
| | Locations: Pinto Mountain.
| Pinto MountainThis is my location 3, where I have a study plot of Swertia albomarginata.
|  Winkler Formation at Pinto Mountain.
The Winkler Formation crops just above the base of Pinto Mountain. This is one of three locations in the eastern Mojave where it does. The other two are: the north slope of Wild Horse Mesa and Hackberry Mountain.
| |  Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus cylindracus) at the base of the south side of Pinto Mountain.
A large Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus cylindracus) at the base of Pinto Mountain.
| |  Rattlesnake on Cedar Canyon Road.
Rattlesnake on Cedar Canyon Road. |
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Two more burros seen along Cedar Canyon Road.
Two burros along Cedar Canyon Road.
The burro on the right seemed like it wanted to approach us, as it would walk several steps toward us, then stop and back away.
| | Locations: Government Holes. | Government HolesGovernment Holes is across the wash south of Cedar Canyon Road. The eastern Mojave folklore is that Government Holes is the site of the only fatal shoot-out in the eastern Mojave. It was apparently the sheep herders against the cattlemen. | Locations: New York Mountains. |
| Locations: Rock Spring.
| Rock SpringAt Rock Spring is the Rock House, Fort Rock Spring, and Rock Spring itself.
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Locations: Rock Spring.
The "Rock House," occupied for a time by Carl Faber, who is now a well-known desert artist.
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| Locations: Watson Wash. Rock
Spring is in an un-named wash that that drains Round Valley. As the wash comes through the granite, the water is forced to the surface, making Rock Spring one of the more reliable springs in the eastern Mojave. Rock Spring empties into Watson Wash which can be seen in the distance.
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The Red-spotted toad (Bufo punctatus) is found at Rock Spring. Confined to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, the red-spotted toad is less than 3 inches long and has with small, squat, vermillion-tipped warts (Jaeger, 1965). Spawning occurred the last week in April, 1996, when this picture was taken.
| | Other Articles: Pinto Valley Road: 10000 Locations: Watson Wash. | JunctionJunction: Pinto Valley RoadThis road joins Cedar Canyon Road in Watson Wash. Take this road, not the next one. There is another road on the east side of Watson Wash that heads north toward the New York Mountains. I've never taken it, but have heard that it is little used, and difficult in spots. | Other Articles: Caruthers Canyon Road: 50000 Junction: Caruthers Canyon
Road.
| Theory would have it that you could take this road to Caruthers Canyon. I've never done it and therefore cannot give you an assessment of the road. When destined for the New York Mountains, I usually take Pinto Valley Road, from near Rock Spring, or take New York Mountain Road from Ivanpah Road. | Literature Cited: Other Articles: Ivanpah Road: at Lanfair and Cedar Canyon Roads. Lanfair Road: Lanfair Routes to Water: at Lanfair at Lanfair at Lanfair Locations: Lanfair. | LanfairJunctions:
| | Literature CitedA list of all literature cited by this web site can be found in the Bibliography.
| | Burn Area Emergency Response Team. 2005. Burned Area Emergency Stabilization Plan: Hackberry Complex. Primm, Nevada: National-Interagency Burned Area Emergency Response Team, July 5, 2005. Location records referred to by this literature:
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| [Null Author]. . County of San Bernardino vs. U. S. Department of Interior. {TAS-pdf} | | Griffin, Joy M. 2006. Sediment Production, Storage, and Transport Processes Studied in Two Semi-Arid Basins and in a Recently Burned Region of the Mojave National Preserve. Thesis, Master of Science in Hydrogeology. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Reno, December 2006. ... | | Jaeger, Edmund C. 1965. The California Deserts. 4th Edition. Stanford, California.: Stanford University Press.
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| Thompson, David G. 1921. Routes to Desert Watering Places in the Mohave Desert Region, California. Water-Supply Paper 490-B.. Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey, 1921. {TAS} Location records referred to by this literature:
| | Yeaton, R. I., R. W. Yeaton, J. P. Waggoner III and J. E. Horenstein. 1985. The ecology of Yucca (Agavaceae) over an environmental gradient in the Mohave Desert: distribution and interspecific interactions. Journal of Arid Environments. 8: 33-44. Location records referred to by this literature:
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| | Date and time this article was prepared: 1/21/2010 12:45:15 PM |
