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06/30/2009 Browse Guard Station Area, Leeds, Utah!

Friends had told me about the old abandoned Browse Guard Station. It is aptly off the Browse Exit from I-15 and one travels in an easterly direction on a gravel road which turns into a dirt one-track poorly-maintained 4WD road after a few miles. The first few photos of wildflowers were taken from the point of transition from good to bad road. I use my trusty old low-clearance 1997 Honda accord EX with 190,000+ miles to explore these back roads as far as I can and we made the seemingly long trip on into the guard station. This old building has been abandoned and there is a sign on the door which warns of the possibility of a rat-borne fatal disease named "hantavirus" being on the premises. We explored the surrounding area and the biggest surprise was the large and healthy growing Sequoia tree which had to have been planted there and is native to the high Sierra Mountains in California but a widely-planted ornamental conifer tree. It is doing very well in this environment similar to the Sierras being in the east-side foothills of the Pine Valley Mountains. This album has been completed and no more photos will be added.

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