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Soldier Summit is 7465 feet high.  Some snow on the ground.  big smoothe hills several with Sage brush and groves of Populus tremuloides, Quercus [[blank space]], & Spruce (probably a Picea).
From Soldier Summit we follow down a creek through a gulch that grows deeper to Castle Gate, below there it opens out & at Helper & Price there is quite a wide valley with farms along bottom.  Pinus edulis begins below Pleasant Valley Junction & runs down below Castle Gate.  Juniper ranges with it but extends lower and covers low hills down to Green River.
Pinus ponderosa scopulorum is scattering along the sides of cañon between Pleasant Valley Junction & Castle Gate.  Picea follows down the cañon to Castle Gate.
From Castle Gate to Green River and up the Grand River, at least to Debuque, is a dry [[strikethrough]] Atriplex [[/strikethrough]] desert with typical Badlands along Green River.  They ought to be full of fossils.  Atriplex confertifolia & canescens, Eurotia lanata, Sarcobatus, and Opuntia (vulgaris?) are characteristic plants.
This part of the country could be worked pretty thoroughly by stopping at Green River, Castle Gate & Soldier Summit.
Saw 2 Prairie Dogs just east of Price,

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Reviewed. Edited markup in line with instructions, double checked species names. Think Vernon wrote "Debuque" possibly his spelling of Dubuque? -@siobhanleachman