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are covered with scrub live oak, Rhus aromatica ^[[Bumelia lanuginosa, &]] Juniper & nut pine. A few cottonwoods grow along the bottoms where there is water & bunches of willow in a few places. One pool has a bunch of cattails in it & another a bunch of Tules. Junipers & nut pines make a scattered forest over the rocky slopes back from the canyons for a short distance to where the big shortgrass plains begin & sweep away to the sky all round. From the top of the highest ridges a low line of blue mts. with snow capped peaks show to the N.W. & the high mesa with sharp northern escarpment to the S.E. where the Staked Plains reach their highest point. Between this point & the Mts. and also between the valleys of the Pecos & Canadian rivers a line of sharp buttes beginning with Tucumcara extend from near the point of the Staked Plains N.W. till they run into other high mesas that slope up to the Mts.

The general region is Upper Sonoran plains, but along the valleys & canyons & especially on warm slopes a strong element of Lower Sonoran is shown in

Transcription Notes:
"Tucumcara" = Tucumcari Butte, in New Mexico on the northwest edge of the Staked Plain. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucumcari_Mountain)