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Longhurst
1939
July 13
Twin Buttes, Skamania Co., Wash.
occidentalis, Picea engelmannii, a few
Populus trichocarpa, Salix sp. Vaccinium sp. and,
Pinus contorta. The area in the immediate
vicinity of camp appears to have been
burned quite a while ago and a new
growth of conifers is well advanced with
trees up to 50 ft. high.
July 14
Maryhill, 200 ft., Klickitat Co., Wash.
Yesterday we broke camp at Twin Buttes
about noon and headed back toward
White Salmon. At 1 mi. SE Sawtooth Mt.,
4200 ft. Skamania Co., Wash., we stopped
for lunch and to shoot pileas about
some rock slides. I got two, They
seemed to be quite numerous as
their shrill cries could be heard from
all sides and numerous little piles of
hay were seen among the rocks. When
they cry their heady head is thrown
forward; their mouth opened wide showing
their teeth; and their body gives a
violent convulsion as if they were
putting every bit of energy they possessed
behind their cry. Shortly before we stopped
for lunch I shot at a large hawk circling
above the road. It appeared to be a Swainson.
We stopped at White Salmon for mail