Santa Rita Experimental Range
Repeat Photography

Photo Station #069

Photo Archive No. 69.1.1936.07

Permanent No. 344246. Temporary No. 2428. Photo Station 69. About 25 feet from Photo Sta. 68, 200 feet below top of hill along fence line dividing pasture 8 from Forest. Taken 10 feet inside pasture 8 fence. Steep hillside with good cover of old grass and new summer's growth coming on rapidly. Photo by Cribbs, S.R.E.R. 7/23/36. 104-C.

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Photo Archive No. 69.1.1985.09

PS 69. Azimuth 360. Sept. 13, 1985. RFB. Canon AE-1 camera (35mm). 35mm WA lens. Robert F. Buttery. Not exact field of view as in earlier photo.

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Photo Archive No. 69.1.2000.12

PS 69. December 14, 2000, 12:45 p.m. Facing north. Azimuth 360. Pasture 8. ASA 100 TMAX film. 35mm lens focal length. Matches 1985 photo; 1936 location is approximately 25-30 ft. downslope (SE) from 1985, but not possible to make exact match of 1936 photo. Some sotol in 1985 photo are now dead. Dominant grasses are plains lovegrass, cane beardgrass, sideoats grama. No Lehmann lovegrass in picture but some upslope of view in picture. M. McClaran.

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