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Raymond M. Turner
Revegetation has occurred in much of the previous townsite, excluding the road used for tourist access to the surrounding minesites. Most visitors do not know where Kunze was and instead visit a rock shelter (in the distance of this view) that likely was built after the townsite was abandoned. Most of the perennial vegetation is Hymenoclea salsola (cheesebush) and Achnotherum speciosum (desert needlegrass), with scattered intermediate-lived species such as Ephedra nevadensis (Mormon tea), Grayia spinosa (hopbush), and Lycium andersoni (Anderson wolfberrry). Before the townsite was built, the likely dominant in the foreground would have been Menodora spinescens (spiny menodora), although we could not locate any comparable site nearby with undisturbed perennial vegetation. No Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) appear in the foreground, and Larrea likely was not as common here as in Greenwater and Furnace townsites. Robert Webb is seated in approximately the same position as a man was in 1906. (Raymond M. Turner)