Canti, Blein 1975 Journal 1 1/4 mi. NNE Stubby Spring, Joshua Tree National Monument, Laraville Co, California October 3 a desert precinct, with no concern for a understandings of the fauna or flora inside his charge. He even was ignorant of the existence of Miller and Stebbing's book on the vertebrates of Joshua Tree Nat. Mon. I conclude that factual arguments on the merit of scientific research within the monument are totally useless on this man, which seems a pity, since it is the unique flora and fauna that the monument was created to preserve and study! We then drove to Juniper Flats, arriving about 21:30 p.m., and surveyed the area at the terminus of Juniper Flats Road, about 0.9 mi. North of the intersection with Stubby Spring Road, for habitat favorable to Lepidodops megrapt.- see map Hill 16 4 40 3 H 2 1 40 100 traps were set in the area around the turn around no indicated. One P. mice, a 9, was taken in a burrow complex 100 yds N. of the turn road, in a 5x10 ft. ring of blackbrush. 41 43 Stubb Spring Rd 40 40 Juniper Flats Rd 30