Shrublands
Dense vegetation, mostly shrubs, grasses, and herbaceous plants, cover a dry, sunny hill. A few cacti dot the hillside near the bottom, while moving upward, the vegetation turns to grass - more brown and yellow, perhaps due to it being drier.
San Clemente Island, the southernmost of eight Channel Islands off the southern California coast.
Photo credit: Susie Tharratt, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Shrublands
Fort Stanton–Snowy River NCA is located at an elevation of about 6,300 feet above sea level in the eastern foothills of the Sierra Blanca Mountains of south central New Mexico.
Photo: Bob Wick, BLM California
Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) exposes its black skin to the sun to warm up on a cold winter day.
photo: NPS/ Carmen Aurrecoechea