This image illustrates the huge variety of plants that there are in the desert. The media often depicts the desert as barren of vegetation but I was always amazed at the huge number of plants, especially cactus, tht grow in the Arizona Sonora Desert. There are places where few plants grow, but you can always find a variety. Unfortunately, as in the case with the rest of the world, extreme drought will kill some of the cactus and other plants. A recent huge fire in Arizona killed thousands of mature saguaro plants, the desert icon. As this is posted, we have been suffering from smoke from fires in California. From my years of observing the desert and the mountains, it feels like we are at a tipping point in our climate and that the fall has already started and probably will not stop.
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