Palmer 1936 Itinerary Zoni, NNE New Idria, 1900 ft., San Benito Co., Calif. June 22 Broke camp this A.M. 1 mi. SE summit San Benits Mtn. and drove down to New Idria where we stopped for an hour or so. Again saw the Canyon Wren that has a nest on the front porch of the old store building there. Drove on down the road to the above locality where we got permission to camp from Lloyd Jones, the owner of the ranch. Got camp set up on the NE side of San Carlos Creek (now very muddy from mining activities). About 5 P.M., Johnson and I walked to the top of a nearby hill for a look around. Camp is just on the edge of the chaparral belt. South of us the hills are all covered by Adenostoma, Quercus dumosa and Arctostaphylos sp. Along the creek are large cottonwoods and lining the banks are scrubby Blue Oaks, 8-12 ft. high. North of camp, which is in the grassy canon bottom, the appearance of the hills is much different. South and east facing slopes are sparsely covered by Artemisia californica Eriogonum fasciculatum?, Ephedra, small annual grasses (now dry), with a few scattered bushes of scrub oak, Adenostoma or Juniperus. North and west facing slopes are generally grassy with a much heavier cover of Juniper