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Highest Elevation: Boot Springs
is our highest elevation site. The rains made lots of flowing water at
this site during our trip.
Anne takes a seat on comfortable rock to record data as we set up a trap. |
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A Transect of Boot Springs. | |
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Why is it called Boot Springs, you ask? Take a look at this rock (left). What do you see ? This rock is at the entrance to the canyon. If you look out over the desert from this canyon, you can almost see Glenn Springs in the distance (right). |
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Glenn Springs just below our collection sites. |
Mid-Elevation: Glenn Springs, has more vegetation
than Boot Springs and perhaps more predictable water flow.
Do you think that this predictability is important to the insects and plants that live there ? |
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Cattail Falls is the patch of green at the foot of the hill. |
Cattail Falls |
Hannold Springs |
Rio Grande Wetland has some trees near the wetland margin but is mostly reeds and cattails where we sample (right). |
Cattails at Rio Grande Wetland. This site is on a spring that surfaces in the floodplain of the Rio Grande River. Here we are just a short hop from Mexico |
Vegetation is mostly Giant Reed and Cattail at the Rio Grande Wetland Site. |