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[[underlined]] Down Battle Creek [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] July 31 [[/underlined]]  Followed down the road, crossing Battle Creek - to south side - at lower end of meadows, then down the ridge to Paine Creek, north past Inskip Hill & camped at a ranch near Battle Creek below the forks.  Passed entirely through Transition zone & practically through Upper Sonoran.   At Paine Creek at 1000 feet the big Quercus lobata begin & are common on the flats.  They grow to various size & I presume mark a Lower sonoran limit.  At the ranch where we camped Peaches & figs are raised in abundance.

[[strikethrough]] Aug. 1 [[/strikethrough]] In the Transition zone Pinus ponderosa is the dominant tree - Oaks & chapperal mark the Upper Sonoran zone with most of the Sacramento Valley spesies of shrubs. - Aesculus, Fremontia, Ceonathus, Prunis ilicifolia, Arctostaphylos patula & viscida.

Calipepla, Aphelocoma, Pipilo crysalis, & [[strikethrough]] [[Cohamia fa?]] [[/strikethrough]] Psaltriparius & common birds.

Dipodomys & Lepus californicus tracks are common.

Came 30 miles all down hill, rocky road.