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basalt on both sides, higher up it is not so rocky & the basaltic columns give way to a kind of porphory of irregular cleavage. All the rock is of volulcanic or igneus origin. The sides of the mountains are mixed soil & broken rocks, or in places a solid mass of slide rock. The tops of the higher peaks are mostly solid or broken rocks. I should estimate the highest peak that [[strikethrough]] Ceda [[/strikethrough]] I was on at 2500 feet above Reese R. Another peak went about 500 feet higher. Cedars & Pinus monophylla begin at the base of the mountains & go up to within about 1000 feet of the top on south slopes not so high on north slopes -
Circocarpus ledifolius begins with the Cedars & Pines & extends to the top of the highest peak. Above the Piñon & Cedar it has the ground all to its self & forms a thick forest on high slopes facing southerly. but does not grow on the high north slopes to within about 800 feet of the top. This space on north slopes from the top down about 800 feet is occupied by Pinus flexilis. It is scattering & rather scrubby, the trees rarely over 40 feet high & one or two put in diameter, gnarled & limby.
Specimens of both pines & cedar saved.

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reviewed -@meg_shuler