slgwv's photos with the keyword: Moapa

A coal-fired electrical generation plant about 50 miles NNE of Las Vegas, Nevada, the primary market for its power. It has been greatly modified and enlarged since it was built in the late 60s or so. At least the stack scrubbers seem to be working today--

A.k.a. greasewood. Larrea tridentata . Southern Nevada, near the tiny town of Moapa about 50 miles NNE of Las Vegas. This is a very typical shrub of the Mojave desert. In the adjacent pictures you can see how it tends to occur evenly spaced, almost as though deliberately planted, on an otherwise nearly barren desert surface. It blooms in the spring, as seen here. Here's the Wikipedia write-up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote_bush