Journal 124. July 28 (to cont'd) to the Columbia River where I took a small car ferry across (no fee), then continued N to Republic. Here I turned E on Hwy 20. All along this part of the route, at least since the river, was a habitat of ponderosa pine savanna grading into doug fir mix at higher elevations. Ponderosa pine: no cones, old or new. Grey old cones on the ground around the trees. Dough fir: old crop of moderate size; now no seeds in cones. At high elevations along 20, up to Sherman Pass, the forest became one of mixed ponderosa, lodgepole, doug fir, western larch, and englemann spruce (along low areas). The englemann had a good crop of new cones; the larch had a poor new crop. Lodgepole: good here, Ponderosa: nothing. Doug fir -- moderate new crop. I explored along south Sherman Road, also along the road up to Graves Mtn, also Kalamik Road. Generally -- few places to camp from here, with not many good-looking areas to set up for crossbills. Saw + heard nothing, but I was exploring late in the day. I finally camped at the Sherman Pass Nat'l forest campground,