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Patelca
1943
June 11. 2 mi' S'E Beegum, 1650 ft., Tehama Co., Calif.
is replaced by fairly extensive areas of Adenostoma with scattered
digger pines.
June 12 Hunted today north of Camp, in part over the
flat between the road and the small
stream beside which our camp is located. I
continued, then, along one side of the stream
northward to its headwaters and to the
ridge which separates the drainage of our
collecting locality from that of Cottonwood Creek to the north. Two main habitats
were sampled: First, the blue oak-digger
pine-manzanita in the vicinity of camp.
Secondly, the Adenostoma chaparral along
the slopes and higher ridges. The chaparral
generally
is broken up into patches of several square
hundred square feet to several acres in extent.
The individual shrubs are spaced with 1-3 feet
of clear space between them. A number
of dead
shrubs have been noted, and some
are made up of fresh growth from the basal
portions of otherwise dead shrubs. This may
indicate a burn perhaps two or three
years ago. Over flat areas and along
draws in the vicinity of the chaparral, there
again occur blue oak-digger pine- and
manzanita and the marginal mixtures