Field notes, v1536
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Piteeka 1947 Oct. 11 Enroute to NW Nevada. passed through the most magnificent redwood forest I have ever seen. Also, south of Pistol River, perhaps 4 or 5 miles, there is a sandy area with some closed-cone pine, several ericaceous shrubs and other interesting plants of such habitats. It would bear investigation. We travelled along Route 199 through Grants Pass, Medford, and Ashland, thence directly east to Klamath Falls and through Beatty to Lakeview, where we spent the night. Along this transit, one passed through (1) redwood, (2) Douglas fir, with an increasing representation of some pine that looked like Pseudotsiana, (3) thence into yellow pine and black oak with decreasing representation of Pseudotonga and increasing representation of Abies concolor [around Medford and Ashland, there are extensive black oak woodlands and forests]; (4) more or less pine yellow in the region juniper between Ashland and Klamath Falls, (5) extensive mixtures of yellow pine and juniper east of Klamath Falls. Yellow pine disappeared after we passed through the northern reaches of the Warner Mountains east of Lakeview on the 12th. Here also White fir reappeared on protected and north-facing slopes somewhat mixed with yellow pine and juniper.