June 25, 1991 Doolittle Ranch 3/4 mile N of Watson Mora Co., New Mexico. Elev. 6850 ft. The owner is the granddaughter of the ranch's founder, and she was (cut) born in the house early this century. She apparently lives on here, as she is planning to donate the property as a headquarters for the Santa Fe Trail Association. The "mountain cut-off house" of the old Santa Fe Trail crosses her property, and continues through Watrous. I arrived here about 10:50. After visiting about an hour, learning some local history and being shown the house, and listening to a description of the property, I set out to explore the ranch. Two small rivers course on the property, the Sapello joining the Mora, and continu- ing as the Mora River. Its watercourses all supported an impres- sive riparian vegetation. The dominant tree was again cotton- wood, with Fremont, lance-leaved, & narrow-leaved cottonwoods present in order of decreasing frequency. These trees formed the core of a discontinuous gallery woodland. There were several fairly long stretches (100-200 yards) of closed canopy woods, including a few sketch belts adjacent to ranch roads and storage buildings. The trees are mostly large, old trees, many with weeping areas of root disease (a fungus, I believe). The trees were mainly 40-70 ft tall, and 2-4 ft dbh. There were few young cottonwoods, and no small ones were noted. Contributing to the riparian group were smaller (in number and stature) representations of four older, two types of willow, one localized cluster of locust, and a wide scattering of bare (cut to lower branches) Tamarisk. I saw no Russian Olive trees. Where the locust trees were located, about 3/4 mile downstream of the confluence of the Sapello and Mora Rivers, the Mora divided. One