North 5 (copy) CPA Arroyo Seco, 12 mi. S of Palo Verde, Imperia Co., Calif. Dec. 21, 1938 All the way to the river, we walked in mud, also all the way back. We talked to a cattle tender or caretaker of the fence off land and he said that it took several men on horseback with the aid of dogs 3 weeks to round about 150 cattle out of the brush we had just come through. He also said that the whole river bottom flooded at every heavy rain which accounted for the extreme muddy & wet conditions we found. This agreed with our experience on Dec. 20, 1938 when a 20 or 30 min. rain put about one foot of water in a wash near our camp. We were told by the cattle tender that the deer stayed in the thick brush but some forced out by water into the gravelly plain that is cut deeply by many ravines or small canyos. The canyos near our camp had many mesquite trees and some Palo Verde trees in them all of which seemed to lean "down stream". Dec. 22, 1938 - Traps in same place as last night. Caught 49° F at one Cerognathus with broken tail, probably 6:45 A.M. one that sprung trap early in evening; nothing else was taken although 4 traps had bait gone. Last night picked