arroyo
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“This year, the flowers that are blooming include canterbury and school bells, arroyo lupine, and California poppy,” the parks department said.
From Los Angeles Times
Others use game cameras to track groups threading their way up ravines and arroyos.
From New York Times
Traditionally dry rocky arroyos and ditches were overrunning their banks; irrigation diversions and culverts were buried in mud the consistency of peanut butter.
From Los Angeles Times
Near El Paso, Texas, he will establish the Castner Range National Monument on a former artillery range along rugged canyons and arroyos that rise out of the desert near the Franklin Mountains.
From New York Times
Letteriello got permission from state wildlife officials to bring in two dozen native arroyo chub minnows for the pond from San Juan Creek, along the Ortega Highway.
From Los Angeles Times
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