Emma Marie Jenkinson
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EXT 498 WEST ML MK 21
JAWBONE CANYON / LA AQUEDUCT
35°18'53.7"N 118°02'40.3"W

If you have any doubt about it, know that the desert begins with the creosote. This immortal shrub spreads down into Death Valley and up to the lower timberline, odorous and medicinal as you might guess from the name, wandlike, with shining fretted foliage. Its vivid green is grateful to the eye in a wilderness of gray and greenish white shrubs. In the spring it exudes a resinous gum which the Indians of those parts know how to use with pulverized rock for cementing arrow points to shafts.

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