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[[underlined]] Ubet - Philbrook [[/underlined]]

Leaving Ubet we travel N.W. over dry mesas and short grass prairie with very little water for 10 miles & camp. Lots of Spermophiles all along but no Cynomys seen.

Camped early & made up skins & set a few traps. Came about 25 miles.

[[underlined]] Aug. 28. [[/underlined]] Traveled all day over grassy plains, or smoothe mesas and creek valleys between. Most of the creeks were dry. Judith River is the only stream of any size & it could be jumped across. It furnishes water to a lot of large ranches in an excellent farming valley. Thickets of willows & a few trees grow along it. otherwise no trees seen all day. It is so smokey we can not see over 5 miles. Saw no mountains and a few hills.

Wheat, oats, & hay appear to be the principal crops on the ranches. Passed 3 large herds of sheep & saw a good many cattle & horses on the range.

Traveled all day in Transition Zone, though down to 4000 feet at Philbrook there were no signs of Sonoran species. No cactus & only 2 or 3 plants of Helianthus annuus. Artemisia frigida, Gautierrezia euthameaea. Celastris scandens are the characteristic plants besides grass. Gramma grasses are the prevailing species on upland.

S. richardsoni, com. all along. Caught an Arvicola austerus in road & Dutcher found an A. pallida dead in road. Saw signs of Lepus campestris & badgers & coyote tracks. No Cynomys.

Came about 25 miles. Philbrook has a good little store & a shanty hotel.

Transcription Notes:
Can't verifty "Gautierrezia euthameaea". "Celastris scandens" should be Celastrus but transcribed as written. Ditto "Gramma" - grama.