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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] Oct. 29. Caught 3 Dipodops & an Onychomys. Started early, a few minutes after sunrise. Turned off from the river valley & began climbing the hills on the north side - Climbed up gradually for about 10 miles to the summit of a lower range of hills - Probably reached near 1000 feet above the river at the summit. The lower hills are of clay & gravel & sand stone. The top of the range & higher hills is all lava rock. Artemesia tridentata is the principal plant. It grows thick & big - near the top another Artemesia begins & grows more numerous high up. On north east slopes tridentata gives way to it wholly. It is finer & darker colored & smaller than tridentata, ranges from one to two feet high. The leaves are tridentata but short & triangular. It is the same as we saw on the Bruno Mts. There it was dwarfed to 3 or 4 inches high on top of high hills. I saved specimens of this & tridentata to send for identification. Crossed the summit & went down about a mile, found springs, saw a Tamias lateralis & some T. pictus, so we camped to try & get some. Shot at the lateralis, but he escaped.
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Not sure about the [[Bruno?]] Mts. Possibly means
Bruneau? see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruneau_Dunes_State_Park-@siobhanleachman
I think that is definitely a misspelling for Bruneau. That's in the same county Vernon has been writing about. -@meg_Shuler