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Rooted in rock
A PORTFOLIO BY JACK DYKINGA
Ever since he started backpacking the Colorado Plateau in 1977, Jack Dykinga has been struck by the tenacity of desert life. "Plants and animals can not only survive but flourish in adversity," he remarked.
Over the next quarter century, Dykinga assembled a collection of photos which expressed that tenacity in every shot. "You see pine trees which have just bolted themselves into the rock by their own roots. You see cottonwoods with elaborate root systems made to hold them in place when a flash flood comes down the stream. Sometimes the soil has eroded away and left the plant sitting on a tripod of roots, and the roots grow bark and change themselves into trunks."
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The March/April 2003 Issue is out. Find it at Las Vegas bookstores today.
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