Journal Mount Livermore Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis Co., Texas May 20-21 administrative emergency and would not see us. The other person who might (can't) authorize collecting on the State park & Big Bend Ranch State Park was David [illegible]. He is not here today and won't be until Friday. There was no one at the Texas Parks and Wildlife office here to give me two authorizations I need on this end. Kelsey Bryan had spent the two days of May 18 & 19 on private property on Mount Livermore, the highest peak in the Davis Mountains. He intended to return this afternoon with David John Lee, who had accompanied him earlier, and Tom Johnson, park superintendent at Bolmadera State Park. Kelsey invited me along and I accepted the invitation. The four of us loaded our things into the back of Kelsey's vehicle and finally departed about 10:30. En route to the mountain, we stopped to look around at various, mostly creek-side localities on the Medera Ranch, spending a total of close an hour at this 6100 ft +/- elevation. We then drove to Bridge Gap, elevation 7311 feet. We made camp and then fanned out to cover the upper areas of the mountain. John Lee & Tom Johnson walked to the summit and worked that area intensively. The intermittently troublesome rock that is Kelsey's trip in near camp. I walked the broken country of the north facing slopes of Mt. Livermore, first crossing over the summit, descending a steep west side canyon and working progressively eastward back to Bridge Gap, working ridge crest to canyon to ridge crest to canyon to ridge crest that Kelsey told me no one else has ever visited this area I walked an average elevation of about 7600 ft to accomplish this. The habitats visited were as follows. The summit of Mt. Livermore (8382 feet) is a bare rock outcrop rising about 150 feet above the rest of the mountain top. The south facing slope is covered dense shrubs forming a chaparral-like expanses. The slope is fairly steep, but the north facing slope is steeper, becoming almost vertical near the summit. To the north drain two canyons running almost parallel for the first