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[[underlined]] Fernando to Saugus & Santa Barbera [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Oct. 30 [[/underlined]] Took 7.37 train to Saugus and got team & drove several miles up San Francisquito & Soledad canyons and got good lists of plants & birds.

Extensive orange and olive groves were seen along the R.R. from Fernando to the tunnel, then upper Sonoran chaparral covered the hills where not burned over.

As we came out at Newhall the valley opens out and is marked by scattered live oak & Q. lobata along the sides, and Walnut and sycamores along the dry wash. At Saugus the valley is wider & the bottom open & woody.

San Francisquito valley is a shallow Upper Sonoran wash, full of Juniperus, Artemisia tridentata and mainly Upper Sonoran brush.

Soledad canyon is much the same but a little more open and the weedy bottom part may carry a mixture of lower Sonoran some distance up.
The ridges are pure Upper Sonoran, covered with [[Admostoria?]], Quercus
 

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I didn't get far on the plant names, and I'm not sure what Soveran (?) is. Hopefully someone who follows will be more familiar! :) - GigglePop Hey Giggles! Thanks for the fab work, I've gone through and taken quite a few out of [[?]] and Vernon was referring to "Sonoran" zones. I'm still unsure of [[Admostonia?]]