1938 July 10 16 mi. S and 3mi. E Lostini, 5500ft., Wallowa Co., Oregon After doing breakfast dishes headed up Lostini river and then the E. Fork. The trail climbs some 1500 ft. or more. Passes by innumerable rock slides of large granite boulders. Pikes are in most of the slides. Heard Russell backed thush along the stream. Forests are very dense and consist primar- ily of spruce and fir. At a point marked 21.7 miles from Lostini a long wide valley extends S. The floor is flat a marshy. Up the sides scrub spruce grows in clumps, and rock slides come down the valleys steeper faces. At the N. end in a small lake, granite sand bottom. A noticable current flows through. Chipping sparrows Cassins Purple Finch, robins, checkadees and White crowned sparrows are abundant. Siskins and Sandpipers are also present. Saw some Clarks Crows on upper slopes. No frogs present though place seems suitable. Lizards and Skyla are present however but not in large numbers. White crowned sparrows sing a lot but are a bit difficult to stalk. Returned without shooting much. Beaver workings present in quieter regions of the river. Spent what ever left of the afternoon in skinning and then in preparing supper. Am going down the road a short way to try for the bats seen last night. Miller reports seeing small Garter snake downstream. None has been any lizards to date. Sky became semi overcast in afternoon but is clear again now. July 11 Went up early in the morning to the meadow about Lost Lake with Miller. The bird I had heard