Staring at Walls

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May 29th 2010

Published: July 7th 2010

Staring at Walls: An Extended Hunt for the Elusive Rock Lady: Digital Rasters and vector polygons once burnt my eye balls. Geological maps from the 1960s were scanned, digitized, exported to ArcGIS and georefrenced. Maurandya petrophila is an odd life form. It is of the Scrophulariaceae family, kin to Monkey Flowers, Penstemons, Indian Paintbrushes, and the like. Rock Lady has dark green leaves ... Read Full Entry

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8th July 2010

Mike Morrison
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Very Cool Steve
Nice job dude, it sounds like you have grown into your job at Death Valley NP. We should try to catch up sometime soon. Mike Morrison

9th July 2010

Lorraine
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Great job!
Very interesting reading the story and looking at the pictures of that plant - nice work

10th July 2010

eric in pdx
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Nice work
Beautiful story, Steve. I am heartened to know you are out there counting and walking and taking care of DV.

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