Monday 1949 Journal Aug 23 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. was sopping wet from the fog, as were the trees above. This was not true of the slope below, at least the south facing one. The mouse abundance seemed to correspond with the moisture. The 15 other traps had 1 Peromyscus Picked up a Gerthonotus crenulatus in the open, sparsely grassy slope across from camp. at 10:30 AM This morning Dr. Pearson found an Ensatina in moist fir forest by Schoolhouse Peak. Left 10 traps in Ceanothus cuneatus, and 12 in fir on the ridge, then took down the steep North facing slope of the ridge north of camp. For several hundred yards this is mainly a burn, with dead stumps and logs, bare or dry grass and some brush, mostly tan oaks. A little to the east I could see dense shrub chinquapin growth. Some distance down found a stream which ran at first in the burn, then in moist fir forest. There were a few scattered redwoods, rather small. The flow was small but steady, and sharply dropping in a steep canyon. Along the banks were several kinds of green tall grass, sedge, and a little Equisetum. There were numerous Cornus nuttallii, sword ferns, maiden hair ferns. In some spots