Field notes, v1501
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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