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Burned joshua trees are scattered across this plain, but fragments of the old juniper forest survived the 2005 brush fires

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5149-butcher-knife-plain.jpg Cottonwood Spring is only a bit more than a mile awayThumbnailsThere's quite a bit of Paperbag bush growing on the burned plain between Butcher Knife Canyon and Cottonwood SpringCottonwood Spring is only a bit more than a mile awayThumbnailsThere's quite a bit of Paperbag bush growing on the burned plain between Butcher Knife Canyon and Cottonwood SpringCottonwood Spring is only a bit more than a mile awayThumbnailsThere's quite a bit of Paperbag bush growing on the burned plain between Butcher Knife Canyon and Cottonwood SpringCottonwood Spring is only a bit more than a mile awayThumbnailsThere's quite a bit of Paperbag bush growing on the burned plain between Butcher Knife Canyon and Cottonwood SpringCottonwood Spring is only a bit more than a mile awayThumbnailsThere's quite a bit of Paperbag bush growing on the burned plain between Butcher Knife Canyon and Cottonwood Spring

On the other side of upper Ivanpah Valley are the Ivanpah Mountains, which I haven't explored, and the Clark Mountain Range pokes up in the background.