Plot is located approx 100 m northeast of plot 526; approx. 300 m east of west side entrance meadow (road); about halfway up hillside. Possible homestead area in past years. Buckwheat area contours lower hillsides just under chamise alliance at the crest of hill tops. Plot is thick with Erodium, but also suffers from competition with exotic grasses. Few visible impacts besides this. Common buckeye (butterfly) feeding on Cryptantha sp.