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some Juniper & Quercus dumosa on cold slopes.

Camped late and set only a few traps. Shot 2 jackrabbits & 2 Ammospermophilus.

[[underlined]] Sept. 10 [[/underlined]], Slept cold at the ranch in damp bottom corner of valley, but soon got warm when the sun came up. had specimens to skin & got off late (7:30
Continued east through morongo Valley across little Morongo Cr., a fine stream of good water, then over divide at 3300 feet and down into long smooth valley sloping gently east and down it 5 miles to Warrens Well at 3100 feet & camped. Came about 14 miles.

Morongo Valley is all arid Lower Sonoran with the full set of ^[[insertion]] desert [[/insertion]] plants. Creosote, Acacia & mesquites.
Yucca brevifolia begins in the east and runs over the divide into Mohave desert. Cactus are abundant.

There is just a trace of Upper Sonoran on cold slope of divide and along cold slopes of ridges north and south of Warrens Well Valley. The soils is granite gravel, dry & loose.