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Search called off for missing man
UPDATE 3:27 p.m.
The San Bernardino County Coroner s office confirmed the body of Patrick Welz, 38, was found at Joshua Tree National Park.
Welz has been reported missing by his wife on June 10. His pick-up truck was found at a campsite in the Rattlesnake Canyon area of Joshua Tree National Park.
On the morning of June 12, a park ranger found what appeared to be a human arm protruding from under a large boulder, the coroner s office revealed.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff s Department Search and Rescue Cave Unit responded to the area on June 13, 2021 and recovered the body of Welz’.
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San Diego Mountain Lilac (ceanothus cyaneus), on the right (east) fork of the Rattlesnake Canyon trail, in Poway. March 24, 2018
Rabbit and Rodent population is peaking in the canyons and hillsides of coastal San Diego County. In many neighborhoods, car headlights illuminate the rear ends of scampering cottontail rabbits making raids on succulent garden vegetation. On the fringes of suburbia, sleek coyotes are sometimes spotted slinking about in pursuit of rodents and rabbits, or easier-to-catch fare house cats.
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Wild Rose, a California native, is in bloom in San Diego County’s foothills and mountains. In moist, lowland areas and along small watercourses, wild rose shows off small, fluorescent-pink flowers. By June and July, the rose bloom will reach the Laguna and Palomar Mountains, where the plant grows in abundance in shady locales.