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B.R. Moon
1987
Journal
5
6 April Unpaved road from Kelso to Cornfield Spring
canyon, Providence Mountains, San Bernardino
county, CA. T11N R13E Sec 32 nw'/4.
1120 PST. Bruce Wagg and I parked
on the rocky road about 3Km down the bajada
from the ridge of mountain that extends out to
this old road. This road is not driveable by
passenger car anymore.
We walked up toward Cornfield Spring canyon.
Creosote bush and yucca are only most prevalent
plants in this bajada. Various small, low growing
red, blue, and yellow annual flowers grow
sparsely over the ground.
Bruce and I saw a juvenile whiptail
lizard and several utas on the rocky plain
up to the canyon. In the canyon, along
a north facing rock wall with several small
caves in it, a wild burro grunted at us as
we walked along the base of its hillside.
The wash in the canyon was gravelly
with large creosote bushes scattered throughout.
1255 PST. we found an adult o' collared
lizard on a pile or rocks(species account:
collared lizard). It was mostly sunny, 4/ ~25%
cloud cover, slight breeze, and ~25°C where we