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DICKER
1958
(Sept. 10 cont.)
we pass into another valley (Banner Canyon). The
valley has entirely different vegetation from San
Jofie & Eastgate valleys & mammari is
basally not present. Vegetation includes juniper,
manginita, sand orch, grass, etc. Beyond Banner
the road climbs continuously & steeply to Julian
which is in the pine country. After getting a few
supplies in Julian we headed S toward Mt.
Laguna. The road all the way to Mt. Laguna is
in high coniferous forest. When we passed the
head of Cottonwood Canyon we stopped & looked
down into Mescan Valley. The canyon is very steep
toward its head & definitely not a passage for
D. mammari. It got dark shortly past Cottonwood
Mt. Laguna. The road descends slightly into
Crack Valley (Crack Meadows) which is a grassy
meadow surrounded by forest & not mammari
habitat. We continued to get with US 80 &
than SE about 1 mi. to Blanchiff Campground.
Nowhere along this stretch was there any mammari
habitat. We set up camp in the campground &
set about 40 traps in a small canyon & along
a brush covered slope.
Sept 11
Picked my traps. Catech:
Peromyscus boylii - 6
Prognathus (Chrotolipus) sp. - 1