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[[underline]]Over Mts. to Santa Margarita [[/underline]]

Eriogonum fasciculatum, Yucca whippleyi, Aianthus & many other shrubs I could not be sure of 
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Fire is running over the mountain sides & miles of wild oats & some chapperal are burned & burning. After going through many tunnels we go through a long one & come out in a high mountain valley with dense chapperal around the sides & lots of [[underline]]Pinus sabiniana [[/underline]] (if I know it). The sheltered slopes of this valley are open, wild oat parks, full of big [[underline]] Quercus lobata & agrifolia [[/underline]].

We now go down to the north about 4 miles from tunnel to Santa Margarita (935 feet). Cottonwood, willows & sycamores along stream. Q. Lobata & agrifolia along bottom. Pinus sabiniana & chapperal along sides of valley. 

Oat hay is the only crop. Next come big fields of potatoes, alfalfa, & garden vegetables, small orchards. Poor farming. At Templeton a good olive orchard & broad valley full of Q. lobata suggest Lower Sonoran.