4 July Sided canyon There is a house at the junction The road to the Rio Bonita and fields at the base of the amphitheater. The Amphitheater is rather bare lava on steep slopes. There is little vegetation boulder: there except for scattered oaks along the several gullies dense number draining the canyon or at higher elevations in the unleaved canyon. The steep sided canyon of the Rio Bonita extends on the and around the and course of the Rio Bonita through the base of the amphitheater canyon carries a great ki-Mata Canyon variety of vegetation, e.g., Hickories, ash, sycamores, oaks, cedar, willows in the flood plain (what Little River is of it) & opuntia, organ pipe & Thorn scrub on the drier canyon walls. The Rio Bonita clearly drains the west face of the Sierra Madre and probably flows all year. We camped about 200 yds from the road into the Rio Bonita's steep sided canyon. Got out about 9:00 am and worked the east facing slopes of the amphitheater canyon first thinking that it would heat up first. Worked along the fields on the dry slopes & along the small arroyos & gullies draining the canyon. John worked the flood plain of the Rio Bonita across the river from the amphitheater. Jim and Carol worked the flood plain of the later in the day we all steep sided canyon near camp- worked up the steep sided canyon. The following herps were seen or collected. There was, however, a generally paucity of animals