R. Moon 1987 Journal 83 20 May Two canyons west of Blind Spring, Providence Mountains, San Bernardino Co., CA. the vegetation was too dense to get down to the wash bottom or the accessible sites were much to rocky to put in any pitfall traps. The sight I chose was just above the upper willows in a somewhat grassy and shrubby clearing between the willows and some oak like bushes (which may actually be oakes, I'm not sure). Digging the holes for the traps was fairly easy since the soil was soft and with few rocks and it was a sunny and breezy but mild day. when I was finished I headed back down toward Blind Spring to look closer at it on the way back down to the road to my car. There didn't seem to be a real spring or any surface moisture but there was a large clump of 2m. high mesquite trees indicating subsurface moisture and possibly seasonal surface water. Nothing else too exciting in the otherwise shrubby, open, and soily & rocky canyon. on my way east on the pipeline road contl.