Hooper, 1938 2 mi. S Saratoga, 2000 ft., Santa Clara Co., Calif. July 7, Our camp here 2 mi. S Saratoga is on the high ridge lying to the South of that town and bounding Santa Clara Valley on the west at this point. This property owned by Mr. Steward Stuart is that which I either watched over as caretaker several years ago. Zone here is Upper Sonoran grading into Transition in protected canyons where stands of Douglas fir are found. Around complete - typical for much of such NE-facing slopes on the SW side of Santa Clara Valley - are madrone, boy, poison oak, live oak, thimbleberry (little). Around on the Southwest-facing slopes, most exposed, is Adenostoma and Baccharis. On the crests of ridges and hard, rocky soil is grass and Yerba Santa. These a circle of here within 100 yds. radius are habitats for: (1) heteromyids (kangaroo rats + pocket mice & jackrabbits; (2) wood rat, P. truei, P. californicus, wood rat + chipmunk. Old apple and cherry orchards, now allowed to "go back to primitive" offer additional food for kangaroo rats & the three Peromyscus