Field notes, v1414
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Koford, Rolf 1975 Journal White Cloud campground, 11 miles east of Nevada City, Nevada Ca., Cal. K ~ 4300 ft. 3 Jan. Arrived 1250 to stay for a couple days in order to find out if my marking procedure has worked. There were small patches of snow above Nevada City, with snow cover becoming 100% just west of the National Forest boundary. The snow was between 6" and 2 ft. deep, with large globs on most of the trees. These globs fell off the trees throughout the day. The snow was littered with dead leaves from Black oak, Ponderosa Pine, and incense cedar, many twigs from Douglas fir, some twigs from Ponderosa pine, incense cedar, and cones from Douglas fir, sugar pine, and ponderosa pine. Deer tracks were numerous, as were people tracks around the campground entrance. There were some domestic dog tracks and other tracks which may have been coyote. Some tracks from cross-country skis went through the study site and campground. A parking area had been plowed out on both the campground entrance side and the Picnic Area side of the Hwy. This is where I parked. I walked around the campground and study site for a couple hours, finding 6 sets of squirrel tracks (3 within 10m. of each other, across an open space east of squirrel E's territory), 4 holes in the snow which had been dug out by squirrels (duff brought up), one core, a partially eaten cone, and scales (all P. pine) just south of the big incense cedar several m. south of the P. pine 15m. 222° F1, one partially eaten P. pine cone on E's territory, and at least 5 cores plus scales in a 8x5 ft. area just