Moving On Up To Higher Ground

Utah Juniper branch Rocky Mountain Juniper branch Interpretive Panel Comparison

Do these trees look different than the Rocky Mountain Juniper you just passed? The junipers growing on this dry hillside are Utah Junipers. They are more common in dry areas than Rocky Mountain Junipers because they require less water. The foliage of the Utah Juniper is thicker and denser than the Rocky Mountain Juniper. Its berries are a bit larger, and the turn reddish brown when you scrape the waxy coating off them. Do you remember the color the Rocky Mountain Juniper berries turned when you rubbed them?

CRESS CREEK

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NATURE TRAIL PANELS

01 Cress Creek Nature Trail

02 Keep Cress Creek Natural

03 What's At Fault?

04 Hot Spot

05 Stuck in a Rut

06 Go With the Flow

07 Migration to Irrigation

08 Water They Here For?

09 Wild Bloomers

10 Heavy Drinkers

11 Moving On Up

12 Let's Get to the Source

13 Tracks and Scat

14 Parched Posies

15 Have We Been Introduced?

16 Gotcha Covered

17 Topography

18 South Fork of the Snake

19 Thanks for Visiting