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Itinerary
Longhurst
1934
June 28
11 Mi NE Weed, ft., Siskiyou Co. Calif.
On the morning of June 27
I met the party consisting of
Johnson, Hoffmeister, Chattin, Tevis,
and Hooper at The Cordelia Y about
10:30 A.M. Johnson was in charge
and Hooper, cook. The others were including Hooper
graduate students like myself.
We traveled in a Dodge truck and
Dodge sedan belonging to the M.V.Z.
From Cordelia we traveled up the
Sacramento Valley, ate lunch at
Williams, and continued on through
Red Bluff, Redding, and to Weed
for dinner. The only fauna of
interest were seen about the Sac.
Migratory Bird Refuge, 10 mi. S. of Willows.
American egret, redwinged blackbird, black
tern, black stilt. After dinner
we continued 11 mi NE along the
highway to Klamath Lake and
made a dry camp near the old
railroad siding of Delaney. The
life zones passed through were
lower sonoran floor of Sac. V.;
upper sonoran and transition in