Please Note: Due to the Desert Gala, there will be no Theater Animal Experience Fri 4/25 - Mon 4/28. The Ironwood Restaurant will close at noon on Sun 4/27. The Ironwood Gift Shop, Baldwin Gallery, and the Desert Garden will be closed all day Sun 4/27.

Trees and large shrubs can form nearly continuous canopies along the banks of washes. The central channel is kept clear by the raging flash floods that occur every few years. The sapling in the middle of this channel is a smoke tree (Psorothamnus spinosus), a fast-growing pioneer species only a couple of years old. It will be ripped out during the next major flash flood.


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