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TOUR OF UPPER SAN PEDRO RIVER BASIN IN MEXICO
July 1998On 30 Jul 98, Bruce Goff and Jim Smith (ARS), Beau McClure and Bill Childress (BLM), and Mark Briggs and Steve Cornelius (Sonoran Institute) accompanied Héctor Arias (IMADES) on a brief tour of SALSA research sites and other areas of interest in the Upper San Pedro Basin of Mexico. The following is a photo record of the tour.
Digital Photos Taken by Beau McClure, BLM Phoenix: bmcclure@az.blm.gov
Photo No.
645 SALSA Zapata (Grassland) Site flux station, with Cananea in the background (July 30, 1998).
646 Use of multispectral scanner adjacent to SALSA Zapata Site.
648 Looking upslope at newly installed flume and diversion at Zapata Site.
649 Looking downslope at newly installed flume and diversion at Zapata Site.
650 Taking measurements of flume slope at Zapata Site.
651 Out-buildings at El Quenade.
652 Cananea mine well at Milepost 72 near Zapata, Mexico.
653 Flume at Riecito (Mesquite) Site.
654 Measuring flume slope at Riecito Site.
655 Foreground and Huachuca Mountains from flux tower at Riecito Site.
656 Foreground and community of Zapata from flux tower at Riecito Site.
657 Flux Tower at Riecito Site.
658 San Pedro River Basin with Huachuca Mountains in the background.
660 Looking downstream from road crossing of San Rafael tributary to the San Pedro River.
661 Sacaton grasses adjacent to San Rafael tributary shown in previous two pictures.662 Abandoned ranch house near San Rafael crossing.
666 Ranch building on San Pedro River north of Palomina.
667 Cottonwoods along the San Pedro River north of Palomina.
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