B.R. Moon 1987 Journal 20 15 April Bonanza King Mine and Providence ghost town, Providence Mountains, San Bernardino co., CA. We both woke up at sunrise this warm morning. While I was my hiking gear ready, Bruce found a grey Speckled Rattlesnake asleep under a limestone boulder. We both Got our cameras and took some photos of it. Then we hiked up the main, north fork of the narrow, steep sided grey limestone canyon above the mine. The canyon bottom was very brushy with dense Desert Almond bushes and large catclaw acacias that had not leafed out yet. Above the rocky wash bottom, there were grasses and Agaves on the steep canyon sides. We put in five pitfall traps at the intersection of the large south fork with the main fork of the canyon. This was at the lower limit of P?on Pines in the canyon. Our traps were plastic five gallon buckets sunk into the ground so that their mouths were flush with the ground. We covered them with dead, fallen shrub branches and rocks, leaving enough space for small animals to crawl through. Digging the holes was very hard work; we moved more rocks than sediment and soil.