wmpe2000: the bell ringer - Navajo Churro sheep
wmpe2000: ya'ah teh - greetings
wmpe2000: heading home
wmpe2000: rangeland with Piñon pine & Navajo Churro sheep
wmpe2000: possible coal beds in the kayenta sandstone
wmpe2000: Peabody coal mine - shut down in September
wmpe2000: spiral shaped crustose lichen on boulder
wmpe2000: Opuntia phaeacantha
wmpe2000: Isocoma pluriflora - Jimmyweed
wmpe2000: mound building prairie ant site - these ants clear a circular area around their mound to protect their tunnels from intruding roots and also to
wmpe2000: prairie ants in their efforts to clear their circle of vegetation also collect small pebbles to pile on their mound
wmpe2000: the beautifully textured shaggy bark and the twisted trunk of the Juniperus monosperma is an important fuel source for the indigenous people
wmpe2000: the juniper berry is the female seed cone made up of fleshy merged scales
wmpe2000: grazing on Artemisia bigelovii
wmpe2000: the remains of the short life of the adult cicada
wmpe2000: Pinus edulis - Colorado pinyon
wmpe2000: old girl taking a break in the shade of dead cypress - evidence of the lack of water on Black Mesa - the coal plant used up all the ground water transporting coal in the 250 mile slurry pipeline that runs to the coal plant
wmpe2000: tarantula
wmpe2000: Navajo Churro sheep
wmpe2000: Navajo Churro sheep herd
wmpe2000: Juniperus monosperma - One seeded juniper
wmpe2000: Artemisia bigelovii - Bigelow sagebrush
wmpe2000: Artemisia bigelovii - Bigelow sagebrush
wmpe2000: Isocoma pluriflora - Jimmyweed