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wmpe2000: water trough in a wildlife water catchment area - a rain water collection area designed to minimize wildlife encounters in the ever encroaching suburban sprawl
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wmpe2000: young saguaro (20-30 years old) in front of buckhorn cholla
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wmpe2000: dead wood and scar up close in a saguaro cactus
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wmpe2000: cholla skeleton
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wmpe2000: Saguaro - Carnegiea gigantea endemic to the Sonoran Desert
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wmpe2000: wild horses
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wmpe2000: granite cliffs
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wmpe2000: Stewart Dam at one end of Saguaro Lake - one of 5 lakes on the Salt River
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wmpe2000: granite cliffs near Stewart Dam
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wmpe2000: snow on Four Peaks - highest peak is 7657 feet, Brown's Peak of which we tried to summit but had to turn around due to thunderstorms
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wmpe2000: wild horse - green winter desert
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wmpe2000: Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa - Buckhorn cholla
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wmpe2000: wild horse herd in the Usery Mountains on the edge of suburban sprawl
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wmpe2000: Carnegiea gigantea and the Salt River behind the Stewart Dam
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wmpe2000: opening the to the off highway vehicle road through Bulldog Canyon
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wmpe2000: off highway use area - jeeps, dirt bikes, dune buggies, atvs
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wmpe2000: ribbed metal roofing panels collect rainwater
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wmpe2000: Carnegiea gigantea - Saguaro spines