Field notes, v1458
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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