J Paul DeBenedictis 1961 Saul Mojave, Kern Co., to Bakers field, Calif. East of Mojave there is a high stand of Joshua tree. There is no real yucca (Cagave) any where on the flat desert, the soil here is yellowish or ovayigh brown, light, a rocky sand. Still Joshua trees are the only really tall plants. The foothills on the south of the Tehachapis. are largely barren, but on the crest grow pines and ? juniper and joshua trees. They do not appear to be rocky mountains. there is another large joshua tree growth about 12 miles south of Tehachapi, and much cultivation around Tehachapi. Where the hills haven't been grazed they are densely "brush" covered, the brush being (at closer inspection) mostly like-oaks. Higher on the ridges grows a scubby pine. In this area (south of Techachapi) true yucca appears in the canyons. lots of rocky out cropings in the neighborhood of Tehachapi Creek, which may, in part be peuminant, the forest here is oak-pine, perhaps becoming predominately pine. The mountains (Teba-chapis) are granite with a coarse, red-brown soil. The new freeway passes through open grassy oak-forest. It was quite foggy when we went through this area. Finally even the oaks give way and there is nothing but granite boulder-strewn, grassy fields. We got to Bakers field about 4:15, and got lost there. It has been foggy all the way to Bakers field and looks like it will be so for a long ways.