Weston 1946 Journal 27. July 12 Miss Virginia mine 1900! San Bernardino Dale Joshua Tree Natl Mon Riverside Co., Calif. Up at 5 a.m. The buds cleared away during the night and the wind died down. During the night a few drops of rain fell but not enough to wet the ground. I ran my trap line of 40 Museum Special Trap traps. Not a single specimen, not even a trap sprung. A few traps had ants eating the bait. I'm getting darn disgusted with the way mammal trapping is going out here. It is a waste of time and energy in many ways, in others not. After eating breakfast Dr. S. and I set out for a sandy area about a mile to the SW of camp. This area is out in the middle of a basin-like valley, the wash draining to the north. Out there until about 9 a.m. I shot 4 Cnemidophorus and 1 Callosaurus. I also saw two desert tortoises and 1 Urosaurus. This latter lizard was shot by Dr. S. The vegetation consisted mainly of scattered low scrubby creosote bushes t plus a few other species such as galleta grass and erionum. The entire area is extremely dry and barren of much vegetation and animal life. In the surrounding hills, dark outcroppings of intrusive igneous rocks prevail. No vegetation appears on most of these rocky hills.