Field notes, v1512
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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.