Negative results are still results. A desert is an ecosystem defined by the absence of things: water, shade, nutrients, vegetation. In the case of this bit of desert, the absent vegetation would seem to include saguaros.
We're a bit crestfallen. Even though we've learned something important, it's not so easy to take a triumphant photo of a huge cactus you didn't find the above photo is from Brenda, Arizona last year.
But it's a beautiful day for the hike back to where we parked. Besides, now we've got an excuse to come back and look in other spots. There's plenty of rugged terrain elsewhere in the Palo Verdes where the giant cacti might lurk. Our searching today has only nicked the surface of this little range. The undiscovered westernmost wild saguaro may still be somewhere nearby, clinging to a remote slope just out of range of our binoculars, just one of the thousands of things yet to be learned about the California Deserts.
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Former park ranger Laiken Jordhal documents a saguaro cactus on the ground after it was uprooted by and covered up by construction crews making way for new border wall in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monumentin Arizona.
Saguaro cactuses on the Mexican side of the border are framed by the newly constructed border wall in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument west of the port of entry in Lukeville, a small Arizona border town. A saguaro cactus lies on the ground after having been uprooted the day before by construction crews making way for new border wall on Puerto Blanco Drive in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona.
Saguaro cactuses stand outside the Roosevelt easement where a new border wall is replacing a vehicle barrier west of Lukeville, Ariz. Saguaro cactus grows along Puerto Blanco Drive as crews work to construct a new foot border wall and widen the road to 60 feet in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona. Molly Hennessy-Fiske. Most Recent. Legal status of Bumble Bees in California October 4, Celebrating , element occurrences August 26, World Snake Day - How you can help July 16, Read More.
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