Growing in an area that receives only nine inches (22.86 centimeters) of annual precipitation, these small trees and shrubs still manage to survive. Grassland such as this covers many of the desert flats in the 337,570-acre (136,614.6-hectare) expanse of Canyonlands.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Utah: Land of Promise Kingdom of Stone," January 1996, National Geographic magazine)
