PS. 108. 09 March 2019. 10:46 am. Facing north, Azimuth 000. Pasture UA Cell. Elevation 1193 m. ISO 160, 35mm focal length, Canon 5D Mark II Digital Camera. Rebar present, painted white, camera above. Desert spoon bottom foreground still alive, but the one at right foreground in now dead. Yucca baccata in foreground with small mesquite adjacent. Catclaw acacia present in front of far right mesquite. All foreground mesquite are alive but many dead branches. Calliandra, Zinnia, shrubby buckwheat, Mexican oregano, velvet pod mimosa, and ocotillo as shrubs. Sideoats grama dominant grass, some Lehmann lovegrass, black grama and cane beardgrass common, and find Setaria under closest mesquite. In the foreground, the yucca is the same plant as in 1923 photo, as is the mesquite directly behind it. In the wash bottom, find Sporobolus cryptandrus, cottontop, Bermuda grass, threeawns, Lehmann lovegrass, bush muhly, cottontop, graythorn, desert and canyon hackberry, cholla, and prickly pear. Location of PS 107 is in view. Compared to 2013, increase in sideoats and black grama in foreground; decline in prickly pear in wash; and at least one dead mesquite in wash. M. McClaran photographer, A. Gorlier assistant.
