15 March 2009

Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Saturday 3/22/97—Chesler Park 1

Newberry’s twinpod or Physaria newberryi (yellow flower)

Locoweed or Astragalus mollissimus (purple flower)

Rufous-sided Towhee (laughing canyon bird)

Canyon Wren

“Gnarly” Juniper or Juniperus osteosperma

Prickly Pear or Optrantia polyacantha

Indian Paintbrush (red flower)

Smooth Scouring Rush or Equisetum laevigatum (horsetails—later to be known as “Mankilla, tryin’ to kill a man”)

Box Elder or Acer negundo

Single Leaf Ash or Fraxinus anomala

Fishhook Cactus or Sclerocactus whipplei

Fourwing Saltbush

Peppergrass

Big Sagebush

Tumbleweed

Cheatgrass

Blackbrush

Cryptogam Crust

Lizard dude

           And we’re tracking a cougar.

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