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CA-SJO- This is fairly consistent with the UC Field Party's location description. However, the township/range coordinates would place this site over one-half mile northwest of CA-SJO- The CCIC, in plotting the site on their basemap, apparently chose to go with the township/range coordinate. Map 9 indicates the various possible placements of this site. The most likely location of SJO- is approximately ,k mile north northwest, based on latitudellongitude coordinates. It is at a locale that CSUS students visited in 1971, along the edge of South Tracy Lake, in which they observed and collected a number of items at two loci referenced as TL and TL These items consisted of 8 baked clay fragments, 3 flakes, 1 large basalt core, 1 andecitic metate fragment, and 1 fire-fractured rock. This collection is consistent with the original description of the site as a small impermanent campsite on the rim of Tracy Lake. At the time of the original recording, only a few baked clay objects were observed. They noted that no house pits were present, and that there were probably no burials. At the time of BioSystems' recording effort, no cultural materials were noted at any of the possible locations for this site. However, if the latitude/longitude location that coincides with TL. and TL : was indeed the location for this site, it may be that CSUS students surface collected most of the evidence that existed for this site. 4.2.2 CA-SJO-_ If the CCIC plotting for this site is correct, it exists within a densely canopied riparian forest. The original site record, however, describes it as a campsite on the lake. Although this area was crisscrossed several times, and surface scrapes occasionally conducted, the site could not be relocated. It is fair to note that ground surface was obscured by an herbaceous/shrub cover amounting to 60 percent. It is entirely possible that site SJO- was overlooked, given its nature as a camp. During BioSystems' survey along the lakeshore, no evidence was observed to indicate the existence of this site. 25