Eastern Mojave Vegetation Tom Schweich
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Eastern Mojave Vegetation | Lobo Point Road |
| Tom Schweich |
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I doubt this
little road has a name, or any other kind of official designation. However, as I use it to access a small point of rocks known as Lobo Point, I'll call it the "Lobo Point Road."
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Other Articles: Gold Valley Mine Road: at Lobo Point Road
Junction: Gold Valley Mine Road, turn right to Black Canyon Road and exit the area, turn left to Gold Valley Mine.
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toward Lobo Point. Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 near Lobo Point |
|  Juniper along Lobo Point Road. Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 near Lobo Point
| |  Verbena
growing again after fire. Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 near Lobo Point |
|  General view north from near Lobo Point to the Little Thorn Mountains.
Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 near Lobo Point |
|  Yucca baccata resprouting from the roots.
Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 near Lobo Point One of the many Blue Yucca
(Yucca baccata Torrey) that were resprouting from the roots.
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toward Lobo Point. Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 near Lobo Point |
|  Desert Almond (Prunus fasciculata (Torrey) A. Gray) resprounting after the Hackberry Complex Fire.
Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 near Lobo Point A Desert Almond (Prunus
fasciculata (Torrey) A. Gray) resprouting from its roots after the Hackberry Complex Fire.
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One leg of the "Y," turn southwest to enter the little valley near Lobo Point, continue west to continue towards Wild Horse Canyon.
| |  Looking northeast toward Little Thorn Mountains from Lobo Point
Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 at Lobo Point Looking northeast from the slopes
of Lobo Point toward Gold Valley Mine, one could see numerous Junipers and a few Pinyons that did not burn, especially in the low places along washes. | In the middle ground, there are two Junipers that did not burn. These two Junipers were in a "parking lot" used when Merritt College camped here. Consequently, there were no shrubs around the Junipers to sustain the fire. |  Juniper
singed in the lower branches. Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 at Lobo Point In the valley of Lobo
Point, there is an informal campground. This is the location that Merritt College camped for many years. There is an old, scarred Juniper here. It's been shot, sawed, axed, and had every other manner insult. My contribution has been to eat lunch here at least once in every trip to the eastern Mojave, and to sit in the shade while enjoying the view of Lobo Point. I also confess to saving up the saving up the melt water in the cooler, and draining it somewhere in the drip line of the Juniper. | After all the other insults, the Juniper was only singed on the lower branches by the Hackberry Complex fire, and it looks as though the tree may survive yet another insult. |  Most of the
Pinyons and Junipers burned in the Valley of Lobo Point.
Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 at Lobo Point Locations: Lobo Point. |
|  Burned Pinyons and Junipers in this common view of Lobo Point.
Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 near Lobo Point Locations: Lobo Point. View of Lobo Point. | One my favorite places for lunch is to sit in the informal campgound in the Valley of Lobo Point, and admire this view. |  Panorama showing burned and unburned areas in the Valley of Lobo Point.
Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 near Lobo Point Locations: Lobo Point. |
|  Merritt College Desert Studies group picture at Lobo Point.
Valley of Lobo
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One leg of the "Y," continue west to Wild Horse Canyon, south to the Valley of Lobo Point, or east to Gold Valley Mine Road and Black Canyon Road.
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Lobo Point from Wild Horse Canyon. Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 north of Lobo Point Wild
Horse Canyon Road can just be seen at the extreme left in two little gray patches from the gravel the Park Service has spread on the road. The little dirt road coming diagonally across the photo is the road to Lobo Point. My plot in Salvia dorri was in the general vicinity of my 4Runner that is parked in the middle ground.
| |  Before and after photo. Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 north of Lobo Point My
(Former) Plot in Salvia dorrii. |
|  West end of road to Lobo Point. Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Oct-05 in Wild Horse Canyon
| | Other Articles: Wild Horse Canyon Road: at Lobo Point Rd and Winkler's Cabin Rd Winkler's Cabin Road: at Wild Horse Cyn Rd and Lobo Pt Rd. Junction:
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| | Date and time this article was prepared: 5/15/2008 12:33:34 PM |