R.M.Zink 1978 Journal Sagehen Hills, T. 19 N, R. 16 E, secs. 32-33, Nevada Co, California 18 July cont. Went to Truckee for ice. Returned to Sagehen area ~ 1:15 p.m. + drove to another brushfield that Mark showed me yesterday ( T. 19 N R. 16 E, SE ¼ sec. 32 - it's essentially similar to the S½ of sec. 33. The entire burn area received different treatment. Some areas have been bulldozed + terraced, some (most) areas the dead fallen timber has been stacked in piles r/a rows, brush has been removed from some areas + others are "untreated brushfields". The areas hunted today were essentially untreated brushfields. Beck & Lynch (Condor 72:182-189, 1970) des- cribed the vegetation of their "unburned" + "burned" plots: elev. 7000' plots = 20.9 acres Unburned Burned Pinus jeffreyi Jeffrey pine mature few P. jeffreyi + A. concolor Abies concolor white fir mil's ear (Wyethia mollis) P. lambertiana sugar pine canopy tobacco brush, squaw carpet P. murrayana lodgepole pine goldcurrent (Ribes aureum) A. magnifica red fir green-leaf manzanita Actastaphyle incana cedra rabbit-brush Haplophyllum patula Libocedrus decurrens tobaco brush bloomeri Ceanothus velutinus understory + young pines C. prostratus squaw carpet + young Castanopsis sempervirens chinquapin The topography is fairly level w/ some rolling hills + only a few very steep places. Mark Raphael said he's been here in mid- May + also what he thought were territorial Fox Sparrows - although he added that it