El Salvador field notes, v4501
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they are found. south and east of the little coffee store house is typical prairie grass land. A lava rock fence leads east along the volcano top from the pine grove. The grass is heavy to the north of this fence since no grazing has been done there. Within this grass one frequently finds Signodon huds which look as though they were well used, also in the stone wall there are many good signs of small mammals. The stone wall extends about a half a mile to the east before it meets the coffee and other brush land. The south mountain slope is grazing land where the grass is ripped as close to the ground that on some of the wild beaten knolls one sees only small round rocks and an occasional scabby tree or bush which is bent to the ground from its many years of resistance to the N.E. wind. Along the protected slopes the brush is thick and about arm- pit high with grass growing sparsely at its base and many large lava rock boulders scattered here and there. Stock