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Peteika
1943
June 24
1 mile W Hyampom, 1200 ft, Trinity Co., Calif.
There are willow thickets and a few groves of
large willows and poplars. The slopes
surrounding the Hyampom flat are covered
predominantly with Douglas fir. About the
periphery of the flat, there are scattered
thickets of willow, ash, and grape, and the
lower slopes, especially on the north side,
are covered with a mixed, more or less
open woodland.
June 25
Hunted for about an hour on the flat
south of camp, among willows and cottonwood
thickets; then moved up onto the south
facing slope above camp. The lower slope
is vegetated with a deciduous growth predomi-
nantly gray oak with occasional golden
oaks mixed in. The latter species becomes
more abundant 75-100 feet above the base
of the slope. In the draws along
streams, there are willows, grape thickets and
ashes. Between patches of woodland.
there are sizable patches of open grass,
especially on drier slopes and on some of
the lower prominences. Again, between the
oaks, there are mixed growths of shrub-
including Rhamnus, manzanita, Rhus
triobata, and R. diversiloba, Ceanothus, and
Creocarpus. In certain portions of the