Burns have taken a toll on the Madeline Mesa but hardy curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany. Great Basin Desert, USA
Disturbance plants such as rubber rabbitbrush colonize burn scars on Madeline Mesa, Great Basin Desert, USA
Great Basin wildrye thrives along narrow, rocky floodplain where skeletons of western juniper trace earlier woodland, Madeline Mesa, Great Basin Desert, USA
Color spills from protective rock outcrops where seeds and water gather, Madeline Mesa, Great Basin Desert, USA
Pronghorn antelope gather at a lone western juniper, attentive as always. Madeline Mesa, Great Basin Desert, USA
Your host on High Point #90, Rowland Mountain, Madeline Mesa, Great Basin Desert, USA
A necessary evil on the track to Rowland Mountain, but mind the sign. If no sign, leave it as you find it. Madeline Mesa, Great Basin Desert, USA