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Some of the juniper trees, like this one, at Mid Hills campground are quite old

3895-juniper.jpg On the approach to Saddle Horse Canyon, I pass another flowering plant that I like: Paper-bag bush (Salazaria mexicana)ThumbnailsOn the other side of my tent at Mid Hills campground site 9 is a wide-open space that burned in the 2005 brush firesOn the approach to Saddle Horse Canyon, I pass another flowering plant that I like: Paper-bag bush (Salazaria mexicana)ThumbnailsOn the other side of my tent at Mid Hills campground site 9 is a wide-open space that burned in the 2005 brush firesOn the approach to Saddle Horse Canyon, I pass another flowering plant that I like: Paper-bag bush (Salazaria mexicana)ThumbnailsOn the other side of my tent at Mid Hills campground site 9 is a wide-open space that burned in the 2005 brush firesOn the approach to Saddle Horse Canyon, I pass another flowering plant that I like: Paper-bag bush (Salazaria mexicana)ThumbnailsOn the other side of my tent at Mid Hills campground site 9 is a wide-open space that burned in the 2005 brush firesOn the approach to Saddle Horse Canyon, I pass another flowering plant that I like: Paper-bag bush (Salazaria mexicana)ThumbnailsOn the other side of my tent at Mid Hills campground site 9 is a wide-open space that burned in the 2005 brush fires

However, people keep cutting off branches of these trees for their campfires! The forest fire of 2005 consumed a lot of the old trees around here as well.