Natural History Wanderings

Desert USA posted two new reports for Joshua Tree for Apr 9, 2012:

“On the west side of the road to Cottonwood Station between the road and the wash, poppies were in bloom as of 4/7/12. In the wash itself is a good place to find some nice blooms of Canterbury Bells as others have reported.”

Mastodon Peak trail (near Cottonwood Srpings)”Following the loop trail, about 2 1/2 miles, you can see about 30 differnt varieties of wildflowers and maybe a chuckwalla too if you are lucky. Between the freeway and Cottonwood Springs in the wash, there are also a lot of flowers and some spots are almost carpets of coreopsis at least I think that is what they are. The flowers won’t last more than a week or two as it is warming up fast.”

Read all of DesertUSA’ wildflower reports at: http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/wildupdates.html