PS. 289. 20 March 2024; 3:25 PM. Facing east, Azimuth 70. Pasture 2SW.  Elevation 1060 m. ISO 200, 35mm focal length, Canon 5D Mark II Digital Camera.  No witness or painted rebar present. Location determined by photos, and camera location is in Road 411, and it is placed in the bed of the truck based on perspective of older photos.  This matches the 1948 photograph. Road 411 in bottom right of photo.  Mesquite alive and some leaves from 2023 green. Desert hackberry in distance. Persisting burroweed plants. Blue palo verde in midground center. Cholla and hedgehog cactus plants, and two new barrel cacti midground right. Dense tall shrubs are mostly hackberry, and one catclaw right midground. Boer’s lovegrass dominant, other grasses find threeawns, Lehmann lovegrass, cottontop and bush muhly which is under mesquite and other shrubs. Adundant annual mustard plants under mesquite in distance.  Compared to 2018, more grass and it is greener, especially near the road; more and larger burroweed and prickly pear plants; smaller mesquite are larger, and big mesquite at left is declining in size. M. McClaran photographer, A. Gorlier assistant.

PS. 289. 20 March 2024, 3:30 PM. Facing northwest, Azimuth 320. Pasture 2SW.  Elevation 1060 m. ISO 200, 35mm focal length, Canon 5D Mark II Digital Camera.  No witness or painted rebar present. Location determined by photos, and camera location is in Road 411 and it is placed in the bed of the truck based on perspective of older photos.  This matches the 1948 photograph. Road 411 in bottom right of photo. The tall-single truck mesquite in the middle of the 1948 photo, could be the tree to the right of center in the 2024 photo, and if true, it suggests that the image has drifted left since 1948. Mesquite alive and some leaves from 2023 green. Persisting burroweed plants.  Dense tall shrubs are mostly desert hackberry, and one catclaw distant center under mesquite. Boer’s lovegrass dominant, other grasses find Lehmann lovegrass, threeawns, cottontop in open, and under shrubs find bush muhly. Prickly pear and cholla cacti.  Compared to 2018, more grass cover in distance and along the road, especially for Boer’s lovegrass and Lehmann lovegrass; larger burroweed plants throughout; two new cholla plants in midground left and 6-7 new plans in distance; small mesquite are now larger; annual mustard plants under mesquite in the distance. M. McClaran photographer, A. Gorlier.