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The S.W. slope where we went up is very stony and but sparingly covered with scrub oak brush, Cercocarpus parvifolius?, Rhus aromatica, and a few junipers & nut pines. Mesquite grows on the hot slopes at the base of the mesa and a few bushes straggle up half way, to about 6500 feet.
Beside the yellow pine at the top there were no characteristic Transition Zone plants except on the edge of the plains where Artemisia frigida and Psoralea [[space]] were common, but Eutamias quadrivittatus and Lepus pinetus were common beside a long list of transition birds. This is the first yellow pine or set of transition zone species we have found this year, but some cowboys told us that there is a little yellow pine on similar mesas farther east on the Bell Ranch north of the Canadian R. Sheep & goats are the main stock in the valleys and over the steep slopes.