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I cross the first of several drainages from the Bristol Mountains; this small tree seems to like living here in the flood zone

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6522-tree.jpg I'm surprised when I find myself briefly hiking across a flat, prairie-like expanse in the Kelso Dunes WildernessThumbnailsShortly after I begin hiking northward across the Bristol Mountains alluvial fan, I cross a former road and its newer ant hillsI'm surprised when I find myself briefly hiking across a flat, prairie-like expanse in the Kelso Dunes WildernessThumbnailsShortly after I begin hiking northward across the Bristol Mountains alluvial fan, I cross a former road and its newer ant hillsI'm surprised when I find myself briefly hiking across a flat, prairie-like expanse in the Kelso Dunes WildernessThumbnailsShortly after I begin hiking northward across the Bristol Mountains alluvial fan, I cross a former road and its newer ant hillsI'm surprised when I find myself briefly hiking across a flat, prairie-like expanse in the Kelso Dunes WildernessThumbnailsShortly after I begin hiking northward across the Bristol Mountains alluvial fan, I cross a former road and its newer ant hillsI'm surprised when I find myself briefly hiking across a flat, prairie-like expanse in the Kelso Dunes WildernessThumbnailsShortly after I begin hiking northward across the Bristol Mountains alluvial fan, I cross a former road and its newer ant hills

This must be a "Smoke tree" (Psorothamnus spinosus).