Eastern Mojave Vegetation
By Tom Schweich
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Looking north, north of the Adobe Hills. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06.
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The southern end of Dobie Meadows Road. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06.
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Look ahead on Dobie Meadows Road | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06.
Adobe Hills Spillway
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Adobe Hills Spillway from a distance. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. Water from Lake Russell (Mono Lake) would flow over the spillway toward to viewer.
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Location of Adobe Hills Spillway | http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=12&Z=11&X=431&Y=5266&W=3
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Looking downstream from the spillway. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. Water from Lake Russell (Mono Lake) would flow away from the viewer into Adobe Valley.
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Adobe Hills Spillway from Cowtrack Mountain | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07. The Adobe Hills Spillway is circled in red.
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Looking north across the spillway. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. The car is parked at the highest point. Water from Lake Russell (Mono Lake) would flow over the spillway toward the viewer.
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Adobe Hills Spillway from the south, | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. Water from Lake Russell (Mono Lake) would flow over the spillway toward to viewer.
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Adobe Valley
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Looking into Adobe Valley. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06 from the entrance to the canyon on Dobie Meadows Road.
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California Highway 120 southeast towards the White Mountains. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06 at the intersection with Dobie Meadows Road.
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California Highway 120 begins climbing out of Adobe Valley. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06 at the intersection with Dobie Meadows Road.
Aeolian Buttes
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Aeolian Buttes | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. Mono Craters in the background. This is photograph number 2000 on this web site.
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Alameda Well
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Alameda Well and buildings, from outside the fence. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06.
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Bennettville
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Inside the adit of the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Company at Bennettville | Photograph taken 24-Jun-07.
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Bennettville and Tioga Peak from the dump of the adit. | Photograph taken 24-Jun-07.
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Adit of the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Company at Bennettville | Photograph taken 24-Jun-07. This adit was driven 1,800 feet without encountering ore of any particular value.
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Bennettville and Tioga Peak | Photograph taken 24-Jun-07. The two cabins are at the Bennettville site. Tioga Peak in the background.
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Two cabins at Bennettville | Photograph taken 24-Jun-07.
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Mount Dana from Bennettville | Photograph taken 24-Jun-07.
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Mine Creek and Shell Lake | Photograph taken 24-Jun-07. The lake is Shell Lake, and Mine Creek is coming toward the viewer on its way to join upper Lee Vining Creek at Junction Campground. The peak in the right distance is Mount Conness.
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Big Sand Flat
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Collection location on the edge of Big Sand Flat | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07.
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Lunch-time view near Big Sand Flat | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07. I think the highest peak in the distance is Parker Peak.
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Collection locality northwest of Big Sand Flat | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07. This area burned several years ago.
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Big Sand Flat, from the northeast. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06.
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Big Sand Flat, from the southwest. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. The road at right is Pilot Spring Road.
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Odd structure near Big Sand Flat | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07. This looks like some kind of water collection device, suah as a Guzzler. However, the water collection pan looks small relative to the storage pit.
Bloody Canyon
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Bloody Canyon | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. There are two valleys formed by moraines that can be seen exiting Bloody Canyon. Walker Lake and Walker Creek are in the largest valley that exits to the right. Moraines forming this valley have been dated as Tahoe, Tenaya, and Tioga age. Exiting to the left is the older moraine that defines Sawmill Canyon. This moraine has been dated as Mono Basin age by Sampson and Smith (2006). The peak on the left is Mount Lewis, and the peak on the right is Mount Gibbs.
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Bodie
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Bodie | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Bodie from the South | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Bodie & Benton Railroad
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Crossing of the Bodie & Benton Railroad | Photograph taken 5-Jun-06.
Bridgeport Canyon
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Lower end of Bridgeport Canyon | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07 from Goat Ranch Cutoff.
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View across Mono Basin to Cowtrack Mountain | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07. This photo looks southeast from the pass in Bridgeport Canyon, the northwest edge of the Mono Basin, to Cowtrack Mountain, on the southeast edge of the Mono Basin.
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Mudflow breccia in Bridgeport Canyon | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Coyote Spring in Bridgeport Canyon | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Coyote Spring in Bridgeport Canyon | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Unnamed spring in Bridgeport Canyon | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Horses in pass of Bridgeport Canyon | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07. This photo looks west in the pass at the head of Bridgeport Canyon. The folks with the horses were living in a trailer.
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The road ahead … looking into the Walker River watershed. | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07. This photo looks north into the Clearwater Creek drainage and therefore into the Walker River basin.
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Meadow in upper Bridgeport Canyon | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07. This meadow was watered by a fairly large spring that does not appear to be named.
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Bridgeport Valley
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Bridgeport Valley, just west of Bridgeport | Photograph taken 4-Jun-06.
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Panorama of Bridgeport Valley | Photograph taken 4-Jun-06. At the extreme right is the Bridgeport Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS). Current data is available from: http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/roman/meso_base.cgi?stn=BPOC1.
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Cedar Hill
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View of Cedar Hill acress Mono Lake. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. Cedar Hill is in the middleground from center to right of center. The peak on the skyline left of center is Mount Hicks. The peak at back left is Aurora Peak. Both of these peaks are in Nevada.
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Cinnabar Canyon
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Entrance to Cinnabar Canyon | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07 from the turnoff on California Highway 270.
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View from quarry in Cinnabar Canyon | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Conway Ranch
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Conway Ranch | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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General view towards Conway Ranch | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07. Dunderberg Peak in the background.
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Conway Ranch from US Highway 395 | Photograph taken 4-Jun-06.
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Conway Ranch | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Cottonwood Canyon
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Upper Cottonwood Canyon from CA Highway 270 | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07. As you can see below, there indeed a few cottonwoods in Cottonwood Canyon. In the left middle ground, the light-colored patch is the playa where later in the day I will collect the little caespitose lupine, my collection number 487.
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Murphy Spring … Full O' Cows | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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The road climbing out of Cottonwood Canyon | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Main channel of Cottonwood Canyon diverges from road | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07. Flow of water would be toward the viewer.
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Middle Cottonwood Canyon on the road to Bodie | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Cowtrack Mountain
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View southwest from Cowtrack Mountain | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07. This photo, taken just above the switchback on Cowtrack Mountain Road, shows California Highway 120 in the foreground valley, Sagehen Meadow in the middle distance, and Sagehen Peak on the left distance.
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Southeast shore of Mono Lake as seen from Cowtrack Mountain | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07.
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Flat area near top of Cowtrack Mountain | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07.
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View of Cowtrack Mountain Road from CA Hwy 120 | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07.
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Cowtrack Mountain as seen from Rush Creek delta. | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07. One reason to care about the visually ignoble Cowtrack Mountain is that it represents the southeast margin of the Mono Basin.
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Post-burn vegetation patterns seen from Cowtrack Mountain | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07. At least I assume that the vegetation patterns seen here, and quite visible in air photos result from a fire sometime in the past.
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Summit of Cowtrack Mountain | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07.
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A portion of Cowtrack Mountain Road | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07. Cowtrack Mountain Road goes down to the water tank, turns left, and then climbs out of this little valley back into the Mono Basin. Straight ahead, the little valley drains through Granite Basin into Adobe Valley.
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Dog Town
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Dog Town Plaque | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Dog Town | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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View north on US Hwy 395 from Dog Town | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Scenic Highway plaque at Dog Town | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Scenic Highway plaque at Dog Town | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Ellery Lake
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Ellery Lake in the morning. | This photograph was taken in the morning of 24-Sep-06 from the east side of the lake. The sun was lighting up the metamorphic rocks to the west. There is a USFS Campground along Lee Vining Creek on the opposite shore of the lake.
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Gaspipe Spring
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Gaspipe Spring | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07.
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Gaspipe Spring | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07.
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Glass Mountain
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Glass Mountain from Cowtrack Mountain Road | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07.
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Goat Ranch
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Cabin at Goat Ranch | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Goat Ranch | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07.
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Goat Ranch from the west. | Photograph taken 26-Jun-07 from Goat Ranch Cutoff, west of Coyote Springs Road.
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Grant Lake
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Grant Lake from the north shore. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06.
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Gull Lake
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Gull Lake, in the June Lakes Loop. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. The peak at left is Carson Peak.
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Harvey Monroe Hall Research Natural Area
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Slate Creek | Photograph taken 27-Jun-07.
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Harvey Monroe Hall Research Natural Area | Photograph taken 27-Jun-07.
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June Lake
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June Lake from Observation Platform | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07.
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June Lake and Oh! Ridge from North Shore Drive | Photograph taken 25-Jun-07.
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Larkin Lake
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Mud hole in Larkin Lake. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. This is artificial, having been scoped out some time ago.
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Pollywogs, dead pollywogs, and yellow jackets at Larkin Lake. | Photograph taken 23-Sep-06. In the center of Larkin Lake, a hole has been scooped out, and resulting hole contained some very green water. There were pollywogs in the water, some of which had front and back legs. But many had died. The yellow jackets were swarming to eat the dead pollywogs. Later, having returned home, I reviewed the collections of frogs at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ). There are four species of frogs that have been collected in Mono County. They are:
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