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walkin' in the desert
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flowering wild desert currants

greasewood or antelope bush

big sagebrush

the pocket desert

brittle prickly pear

some sorta Euphorbia


arrowleaf balsamroot sunflowers

little bastards

jerusalem cricket

a teeny tiny scorpion

a juvenile scorpion

an average sized adult

a big mamma

a dead western painted turtle

a vole

Edited by Mitchnast (04/06/07 10:21 PM)

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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Mitchnast]
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wheres all the cacti? :tongue:


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Dr. uarewotueat]
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theres only one species here in the "pocket" desert :frown:


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Mitchnast]
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i am thinking about taking a trip to AZ and buying as many bulk pedros/torches i can find and shipping them back.i can have my boss set up a pick up for as many lbs as i can buy for free.

my wife want to go very badly too so it might happen soon.


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Mitchnast]
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Mitchnast said:
theres only one species here in the "pocket" desert :frown:


cant u introduce some more?
that landscape is crying out for some big columns! :hehehe:


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Dr. uarewotueat]
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the temperature here can drop below -40c in the winter.

there ain't a columnar in existance that will tolerate less than -10 for more than a brief encounter

theres a few other opuntias that survive here but are introduced.

O. polycantha is SAID to live here naturally, but if so, its extremely rare.

the way the desert is getting consumed by development, its nice to have these high, undevelopable plots, but the best deset USED to be in the valleys.

all swallowed up by orchards and vinyards


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Mitchnast]
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brrrrrr...


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Dr. uarewotueat]
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Is this where you live?


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: InFest]
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its UNLIKELY to drop below -40 BTW.
this year was unusually cold and i think -30 was the lowest.

a normal daytime low for winter here would be more like -10


funny observation, the big scorpion has a little blue-grey fleck near its stinger.  thats a poppyseed

all i had to collect them in was my "johnny" bag of poppyseeds. :smile:



theres really little difference between the climate here and that of mid to east washington state or mid to east oregon.

meanwhile just a hop over some mountains and youve got the coast that stays much more humid and mild over winter.  but doesn't get anywhere near the summer heat of the desert out here.


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Mitchnast]
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looking for 10+ years i never found a scorp in BC, always found them state side. i swear i combed teh entire okanogan valley down throu washington. rotten luck... i have had simialr luck, but found a few, rattle snakes.

do you keep arachnids? or just play with the wildlife?


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: kadakuda]
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It would be neat to start a cold hardy cacti garden. I have thought about doing this before, and it seems like a cool project. There are many opuntia that can survive the cold you have, along with echinocereus, pediocactus, agave, and yucca.


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: InFest]
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Love the pics bro. Nothing better then the wildlife, especially of the Desert. Something I just cant go out and check, unless I take a few day road trip. :smile:

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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: kadakuda]
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kadakuda said:
looking for 10+ years i never found a scorp in BC, always found them state side. i swear i combed teh entire okanogan valley down throu washington. rotten luck... i have had simialr luck, but found a few, rattle snakes.

do you keep arachnids? or just play with the wildlife?


both.

scorps in the okanagan are up in the rocky slopes.

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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Mitchnast]
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that poor turtle. it most have had a hard ending.

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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: durban_poison]
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a few more from todays bike ride


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Mitchnast]
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nice snake!


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Dr. uarewotueat]
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lucky bastid. i went on a head count in osoyoose aith UVIC and on my own, probably only found 20 in 3 days. people around you like to kill them much? i found most on indian reserves. damned belt nazis.


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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: kadakuda]
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took some feild-herping swedes (from another forum) out thru the desert yesterday.  found lots of snakes, scorpions, and other interesting things.  they took hundreds of photos, i only took a few.  we found gopher snakes, scorpions, black widows, bighorn sheep, lots of fowl, and a dead bobcat as well. ill post those pics when they send me some.

some nice pictographs

Crotalus oreganus oreganus
(northern pacific rattlesnake)
a bit older than the last one. same size tho. i HUGE and wily one with brilliant patterns was to quick to manupilate for a photo.  some lady came over and got all pissed at us for manupulating snakes in protected areas withought  a permit.  I beleive she was probably more worried we were collecting.  the snake hooks were a bit of a point..  but the $1000s in photo equipment made our explaination beleivable at least.  even so, my wifes grandfather was the one who donated the land and started the reserve.  her cousin is the grounds keeper. SOOOOO, I'm pretty sure I'm ok to show a couple swedes around who drove for days to see some snakes, and get some good pics.

pacific treefrog
(Pseudocris regalia)
a male, found in a shady patch of Oregon grape.  Diddn't expect to find these in the dryest desert patch in canada.

yellow bellied racer
(coluber constrictor)
found a few of these.  smelly things :smile:

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Re: walkin' in the desert [Re: Mitchnast]
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Mitchnast said:
some nice pictographs



i like that :thumbup:


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