MANIX WASH
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| (1919). Manix Wash flows south into the Mojave River near the northern edge of the Cady Mountains. This view shows Manix Wash in the foreground and its confluence with the Mojave River (midground). Mesquite covers the dune hummocks in the wash. The Mojave River bed appears almost devoid of trees and shrubs in this view. Thompson also took photos a few hundred yards upstream (to the right). The upstream photos show patches of scattered trees, probably Goodding willows and cottonwoods (David Thompson 322, USGS Photo Library). | |
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| (March 2, 2001). The Manix Wash now has more shrubs, including many of the same mesquite hummocks present in 1919. Many of the other large shrubs and trees in the wash, tamarisk and desert willow, were uncommon in the early photo or not evident. No mesquite occurs beyond the confluence of the wash and Mojave River bed (midground). The Mojave River bed is now densely populated by tamarisks growing on hummocks of sand to the exclusion of all other species of shrubs and trees. Small remnants of native vegetation, including mesquite, can be seen on a few dunes at the north edges of the river bed (Dominic Oldershaw, Stake 116a). |
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