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[[underlined]] Up San Francisco Mts. [[/underlined]] 

[[underlined]] Sept. 3. [[/underlined]] Left Reserve and followed up Canyon Bonito due west to the foot of the Mts. & then out over a mesa & up a steep slope to the top and camped on top of the main ridge about 6 miles east of Luna. Aneroid at Reserve read 6200, where we left creek 8 miles west 7300, top of timbered mesa 7500 to 8000, top of ridge at camp 8600, From camp, I climbed the highest ridge in the vicinity, about 500 feet above, but forgot to take barometer.  
Practically the same set of plants & birds & mammals occupy these Mts. as the Mogollons, and the zone limits are essentially the same. 
[[underlined]] Upper Sonoran Zone [[/underlined]] covers the foot hills up to about 7000 feet on open places but extends up to 8000 on SW slopes and even to 8500 on steep rocky SW slopes. It is characterized by [[checkmark]] Pinus edulis, [[checkmark]] Juniperus pachyphloea, [[checkmark]] monosperma, and a few trees of the large berried Juniper -------, by [[checkmark]] Quercus arizonica, [[checkmark]] Juglans major, Cercus parvifolius, [[checkmark]] Garrya, [[checkmark]] Rhus trilobata, [[checkmark]] Yucca baccata & [[checkmark]] glauca, [[checkmark]] Opuntia schotti & a flat opuntia.   

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