"LUCAS, John 1992 Journal They reach 30 miles S of Animas, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico June 6-7 Creeks in these mountains), and went down about 3/4 miles, to where the (Croft) Crook gradient becomes greater than 100%. This was a mixed conifer- ous forest which had suffered significant spotty destruction from fire. I hiked out an ENE-WSW ravine under Cistern Saddle at 18:30, back to the trail and down to the car at the trailhead at 19:30 MST. I sleep at Home Camp, but the work crew (from El Paso) was very noisy until 23:00. Weather June 6 was cloudless all day. There were light SW breezes in the morning and gusty SW winds mid- & late afternoon on the ridges. The temperature ranged from 60°-80°-70°. On June 7, I was up at 06:00, broke my minimal camp (as told) and drove to the cisterna behind the Nature Conservancy H.Q. I arrived there at 06:20 and walked the trail the length it went along the riparian corridor, and returned to the car about 07:45. I fed & watered my birds. Then I took a brief tour of web access along the road S. of H.Q., and returned to H.Q. at 08:20, where I again met Staff Bobb. He gave me directions to Deer Creek, via the old Culberson Ranch. Now living there are Marce Porter- Craig and Alan Craig. Marce & I humpety (09:50-10:25) looked downstream from surface the house, where water had been 2 weeks earlier, but my water was there now. Marce & Alan mentioned 2 other natural sites-cisterns, one under a golden eagle nest about 1 mile up and another at a canyon on Lower Deer Creek above Rock Ridge Camp. I hauled out at 10:45 toward Rock Ridge Cany. I made frequent stops along Deer Creek, listening and looking in the sycamores & cottonwoods for goldfinches. Because it was rather windy, I didn't hear much of anything. I walked the side canyon above Rock Ridge Camp, a canyon with discontinuous, cottonwood-dominated riparian vegetation with few large trees. At the top of the canyon, a rainstorm/rainstorm suddenly blew over at 12:00 and I ran all the way back to the