Field notes, v1537
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Journal. June [illegible] Russian Slued State Park, Mendocino Co, Calif. of decaying vegetation. My & mouse traps were still under log in same redwood forest. Mrs Brenmill collected these bringing home 1 Sorel vagrinos. We started getting our equipment in order to take home. Then Josephine, Jean & I decided to hike east of camp to the circle in the wood, follow a path north to a falls, cross over the pine barrens to the edge of the park & south walk thru the redwood forest back to camp. On the path above the falls (U.S. 275-304) found a marbled salamander (Diamptodon) - it was slightly injured but not dead - about 10 steps further on the path a large garter snake was scourging off into the shrubbery. We thought that perhaps it had tried to eat the salamander, & we had frightened it. Along the trail we gathered 5 fungeus, golden backed & lady ferns. At 4:30 PM we met E. Bartholomew & V. Dimmer on the pine barrens. We tabulated the number and kinds of specimens we had collected on the trip.