Davis 28 1946 Pinacles National Monument, San Benito Co. Calif. May 12, 1946 To this locality, first saw none until we reached the gate leading to the national monument. Here we noted 5 or 6 living plants, and 3 or 4 dead ones. We drove to the ranger station a mile or so beyond the gate, but the ranger was not in. However, we found a man in a store next to the ranger station, and talked to him at some length. He told us that he had been all over the Pinnacles, and had seen very little yucca, and that any yucca seen in the confines of the monument was probably planted, as it had been introduced here some years ago. The yucca we noted at the park in- France was, he said, introduced. However, he told us of extensive native stands of yucca along the San Benito River to the SSE. Tomorrow we shall inquire further, and see the ranger if he is in, and if the storekeeper's story is corroborated, we shall probably head SSE for the San Benito River. We made camp in a public camp ground in the monument. After dark we heard Hyla regilla & fourwills, and bats twittering overhead.