Clashing Biotic Communities

Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Apr 16 2023 | 00:04:24

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Show Notes

It’s pretty hard to go wrong no matter which way you head into the borderlands of southeastern Arizona. On the day that we turned west instead of east onto the blacktop near our home and headed towards the Dragoon Mountains the adventure began. The photos are mine of flowering Ceanothus greggii (desert buckbrush) and taken in the Dragoons where biotic communities clash.

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