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J. Rodgers
Cedar Canyon, 5100 ft.
San Bernardino Co., Calif.
May 24, 1938
We (Dr. Grinnell and I) arrived at this
point in Cedar Canyon (Owens Peak quadrangle,
U.S.G.S. sheet map) at about 9:30 am, after
having stayed the night at Yucca Camp and
coming by way of Cima. We made camp
100 feet north of camp already made by Dave
Johnson, Elmer Aldrick and Dale Arvey. They
have been at this camp since Friday, and
were camped nearer Cima the week before.
We are on the north side of Cedar Canyon, about
1/4 mile from the floor of the canyon. Our tent is
situated so that we have shade since about
12:30 and will have it the rest of the afternoon.
The wash here is about 280 feet across, has
a flat floor of fine gravel. It is thickly covered
with a brush that looks much like Genethus
curvatus. The west slope has a good stand of
pinto pine and juniper, a few Joshua trees, and
some Yucca baccata? (low, blue-green, wavy-edged; leaves
18 inches to 2½ feet long). Before lunch, Arvey and I
walked up the draw, circled east and south
about and back up the draw to camp; an approximate
circle having a diameter of about 1/2 mile. About the
camp and up the draw onto its floor we saw three
or four Cnemidophorus. About 3 miles up, where
a little free water runs over the rocks, Arvey shot
a Tanager. About 3/4 mile up the draw, we climbed