B.R. MOON 1987 Journal 32 23 April Canyon North of Vulcan Mine Road, Providence Mountains, San Bernardino Co., CA. 1000 PST. Bruce Wagg and I parked on Vulcan Mine Road just west of the first mountain ridge that reaches the paved road and hiked northeast up into the large canyon that we saw from the road. The distance from the road to the canyon was deceiving; we thought we could reach the canyon mouth in about 20 min, it took us about an hour just to reach the small wash fork at the south edge of the main canyon. Below the canyon mouth, we saw several whiptail, side-blotched, and zebra-tailed lizards on the desert pavement along the wash edge. We also heard a few birds singing in the area; Bruce saw some Chukars. On our way up the mouth of the canyon, we saw the first flowering chollas in the Granite-Providence Mountains area. Creosote bushes, Hedgehog cacti, and several other species of very small annuals were also flowering. In the canyon, we didn't see very many animals because it had gotten hot. We turned around at the first pison pines at 1400m and hiked down and left.