PS. 063. 29 March 2021. 11:38 pm. Facing northeast, Azimuth 40. Pasture none. Elevation 1366 m. ISO 125, 35mm focal length, Canon 5D Mark II Digital Camera. Witness present, bent with top nearly touching ground. Witness about 4 m east of road. Camera about 3 m forward from witness because view blocked by Mexican blue oak on right. Mesquite alive. Smaller shrubs across wash are Mimosa biuncifera. Mexican blue oak foliage in top right of photo. Dead desert spoon in center of photo, ocotillo on distant hill with mesquite and oak, and beargrass at bottom left. Red leaves on oaks in distant left are drought deciduous after dry winter. Sideoats grama, tall threeawns, tanglehead, Lehmann and Boer’s lovegrasses all common. Compared to 2015, following very dry and hot conditions between July 2020 and March 2021, very little grass production in summer 2020 and very little green grass present now, and more bareground and much grey colored litter that did not decompose last summer or this winter; lost sprangletop, cane beardgrass, and desert spoon; added Sporobolus wrightii. Also note that the large flat rock that was present in the 1914 and 1935 photographs has not been present since the 1984 (probably earlier, but no photo). That rock would have been immediately behind and to the right of the desert spoon in the center of the 2021 photo. M. McClaran photographer, A. Gorlier assistant.
