crestman, I'm 1960 Journal Vegetational Notes These notes are almost verbatim copies of rough notes taken during travel. Mileage fairly accurate. Paint Basin fan, sloping down to E., Smoke trees in wash. Mixed shrubs - open stands of shrubs. No yucca. Rather spotty stands of Larea. coarse sand with small rocks; sandy washes. no flowering forbs, though shrubs are in bloom (about 40%). - area flat to gently rolling. [841] = two small lone hills in the middle of the fan & into the Challa patch very abruptly. [842] out of the Challa into mixed shrubs with only minor amounts of Larea. [842 ½ - 843] The Catillo patch. [843½] mixed shrubs with more Larea. [844] Fried Liver Wash (This flows out of Pleasant Valley) with a good stand of Smoke trees and into a Larea stand, along with a few other sp. of shrubs. No forbs. Very windy and shrubs are widely spaced. No yucca and few cactus of any sort. This area appears to be particularly dry with a minor amount of forbs, many small washes and small rocks on surface. [846½] Dense Larea with a few more forbs but no carpos. Shrubs are close together. [847] The first clumps of grass = This point is almost parallel to the west end of the dune hill to the north. [847½] Turnoff to gravel pit and farmer camp Grass with short stunted Larea, rather open. (Made camp & collected for awhile - on road again by 3:15) [848] out of Gravel pit area. Larea, pass # (crawlaw nest?) ; few flowering forbs. Sandy-gravel with small rocks and rather open appearance.