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Palmer
1934
Itinerary
1 mi. NW Warrens Hill, Morongo Valley, San Bernardino
Co., Calif.
Dec. 27 contd.
The country here is gently sloping up-
ward from Morongo Valley to low hills
studded with large granite outcrops of
rounded boulders. Here we camped in
the edge of the hills. Camp was at the
lower edge of the juniper belt. Other
plants here were mainly Eriogonum and
Ephedra with Joshua tree, Catclaw and
Cholla cactus more scattered. The soil
was largely gravelly, formed from de-
composed granite with farther out from
the rocks more sandy soil.
After dark, set a line of 60 gor.-size mouse
and 2 rat traps
traps by flashlight, running. The line
down the rocky walls of a canyon, out
onto the open country and around
and back up the other side of the rocky
canyon. About 1/2 the traps were set in
the rocks and 1/2 out on the level.
Dec. 28 In the line of traps caught 2 Dipodomys
merriami and 5 Peromyscus crinitus;
and 4 Re. stephensi,
The latter all taken in the rocks.
Broke camp about 10 A.M. in a rain
and drove to the Windmill, then took a
side trip up Pipes Canyon to the Pipes.