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Northeastern California 



*The Mc Arthur Burncy Falls Park 

 (B2). An area of IGO acres in Shasta 

 County, including original forests of 

 pine with various species of game pres- 

 ent. Includes Burney Falls and Burney 

 Creek, the falls being 187 ft. high. Five 

 mi. from the highway between Redding 

 and Alturas. 



Redding 75 mi. southwest. — Stephen 

 Mather, Memorandum on State Parks. 



Southwestern California 



*Torrey Pines Park (B3). An area 

 of about 700 acres in San Diego 

 Co. including the rare Torrey pines 

 (Pinus torreyana) and an association of 

 typical semi-desert vegetation. Owned 

 by the city of San Diego and set aside 

 as a wild life reservation. Important as 

 the habitat of the mainland group of 

 Torrey pines, a prostrate form of Arcto- 

 staphylos, and other shrubs of botanical 

 interest and of certain birds and small 

 animals. — Guy Fleming. 



San Diego 22 mi. south on State 

 Highway. 



Los Angeles Summer Camp (B3). 

 Los Angeles County has purchased 

 property with Jeffrey pine and pinon 

 timber west of Cajon Pass, San 

 Bernardino County for summer camp 

 ground. It will be kept in a semi- 

 natural state. For further particulars, 

 address County Forester, Los Angeles, 

 California. — H. C. Bryant. 



Mt. Pisgah Lava Field. A verj^ irregu- 

 lar area covering about 15 sq. mi. An 

 old lava field, or rather a series of fields 

 of varying ages, but without evidences of 

 very recent volcanic activity. Is ex- 

 tremely rugged and difficult of passage; 

 crossed by jagged ridges and yawning 

 fissures; sand has drifted in from the sur- 

 rounding desert and become deposited 

 in the cracks and depressions afford- 

 ing soil for the support of scattered 

 shrubs and annuals for a mile or more 

 from its nearest border. Area for obser- 

 vation of white-footed mice, by Scripps 

 Institution. 



San Bernardino County. Adjacent 

 to (south of) the main line of Santa Fe 



R. R. at Lavic and Pisgah stations. 

 Ludlow 12 mi. east.— F. B. Sumner (see 

 Journal of Mammalogy, vol. II). 



Southeastern California 



Lankershim Semi-Desert. Twelve 

 acres semi-desert, San Fernando Valley 

 in Los Angeles County, with cacti and 

 level plain and with sand areas. Mam- 

 mals: pocket-mice, kangaroo-rats and 

 grasshopper mice; such birds as: black- 

 tailed gnatcatcher, cactus wren. Bell 

 sparrow, and rufous sparrow. 



Lankershim, California, is 6 mi. north- 

 west direction from Hollywood. 



Near "Toluca," on Santa Monica 

 Quadrangle, U. S. G. S.—J. Grinnell. 



Tujunga Wash. Five square miles of 

 semi-desert, chaparral and cacti, flood 

 wash, and sand area. Few spots of wild 

 desert left in the rapidly developing 

 San Fernando Valley. 



Los Angeles County. Burbank, Cali- 

 fornia, 5 mi. northwest; north of 

 Newhall Division of S. P. R. R.— /. E. 

 Law. 



Los Angeles Live Oak. Two acres of 

 deciduous forest, chaparral, mountain 

 ravine, and canyon; a narrow strip 

 between Los Angeles River and steep 

 slope of mountains just south contain- 

 ing a magnificent grove of gigantic live 

 oak, fern-filled, well-wooded, steep 

 canyon. 



Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, 

 adjacent to Griffith Park.—/. E. Law. 



Big Prospector Meadow. An area of 

 500 acres of steppe, 10,500 ft. altitude, 

 sagebrush, alpine meadow on the moun- 

 tain top. Threatened by sheep; almost 

 tramped out now. Home of Merrill 

 horned lark, sage grouse, sage thrasher, 

 Brewer sparrow, short-tailed meadow 

 mouse, and white-tailed jackrabbit. 



Inyo County in White Mountains. 

 Laws, California, 13 mi. northeast. 

 Shown on U. S. G. S. map of "Bishop" 

 Quadrangle. — /. Grinnell. 



Oro Grande Rock Area. Consisting of 

 hills, covered with large masses of igne- 

 ous rock of pale buff and pinkish hues, 

 interspersed with sand and gravel. 

 The vegetation is of the usual type of 

 the western Mohave desert region. Se- 

 lected as a trapping station for white- 

 footed mice, as control for Pisgah Lava 

 Field (see above), the object being to 

 test the alleged effect of color of back- 

 ground upon color of these rodents. 

 Altitude 2700 ft. 



Barstow 31 mi. north, San Bernardino 

 50 mi. south on Santa Fe R. R. San 

 Bernardino County. — F. B. Sumner. 

 Kelso Desert. Hundreds of square 



