Carol Pearson 1969 Journal 2 July Papa León Tree At first all we found were garbage dumps + a military playground where annies had done exercises. Finally a dirt road led us into a wide, dry river bed with steep rocky hills with Tillandsia on one side and steep sandy hills with Tillandsia + dunes on the other. We climbed The rocky hill, which has quite loose + slidey soil. On a prominent rock was some bird white wash (and a feather -> + a dropfly wing wide buffy spots down the larger bone side and some darker spots on the narrow side. Perhaps burrowing owl. OPP and RH set live traps here, + OPP found a gecko in an old artillery shell. The river bottom has some large boulders, some steep banks with occasional furrow holes, some old sink ponds now dried mostly with huge cracks in the clay-y mud, a few pepper trees + other shrubs, some stretches of hard dirt w/liver covering. Here I found a small dead lizard, OPP a flye dragonfly, + AKP a live gecko in a hole. Up on the sandy tillandsial there were fox tracks, a dead beetle, + dog tracks. The sand was wet for the top 2+". This location is 5 1/2 km east NE of San Bartolo. RH, ML + I went up the valley behind Popa León to a location 7 km east NE Puencasa 200m. The valley + hills with lilacs in bloom + sprouting herbs.