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Yeah, that's a river. We don't have any of that size. It did occur to me that you may be thinking of large rivers where riparian vegetation can't cover the stream. Those are a pretty small portion of the total, but in those cases, cows probably have little direct impact.

The point being, as I indicated, trees don't necessarily have to line the banks of a desert river or stream.

Yes. Daily max temperatures out here are as I stated.

The max UV is at midday and the temp is within 2 degree centigrade of the max at midday making it the worst time of the day in the desert.

I think you have no idea, so we can certainly agree to disagree.

I see, that makes me happy. =)

Right. We put the fish there.... That's just not the case. The trout and salmon were there for thousands or millions of years. The impact of man was to bring in the cows, not to bring in the fish, and the cows certainly had the impact I described.

You have had cold climate fish instead of desert species growing in your desert stream for millions of years? I have to be quite skeptical about that claim and ask for you to provide some evidence to support your statement. Also I do no imagine that you can possibly blame the cows for eating all of the lush vegetation when it's the humans forcing them to live in the desert which is a foreign environment to them.