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and slightly lower ridge of the same system lying nearer to the railroad. These ranges run from 7000 to 8800 feet and are separated only by a valley of 7000 to 7500 feet. Both ranges are of tilted sandstone mesas, with high, red cliffs standing on coal streaked badland strata. They are Transition zone over the tops and cold slopes. Covered with yellow pine, [[strikethrough]] Pseudotse [[/strikethrough]]
and Gambels oak, and apparently on cold slopes by Pseudotsuga, tho I did not see it close by.

Piñon and Juniper cover the warm slopes and foothills down to a level of the valleys, but the valley between the two ranges and the railroad valley are open and grassy. Besides the nut pines and Junipers there are Quercus grisea and undulata?, Cercocarpus parvifolius & Cowania mexicana, Ribes cereum & Rhus aromatica, Bigelovia canescens & the leafless one, & Tetradymia canescens in this zone.

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I verified the following on theplantlist.org: Pseudotsuga, Cercocarpus parvifolius, Cowania mexicana, Ribes cereum, Rhus aromatica, Bigelovia canescens and Tetradymia canescens. I couldn't find the one I spelled 'Quereus.' Note: Quereus is Quercus