J. Groth 1987 journal 184. Eastern trip, Montana to North Dakota July 9 to look around and possibly collect (contd) crossbills for a few days. However, the cone crop on the Engelmann spruce was poor, and lodgepole was not common here. It was raining, and I stopped at a high point above the highway to rest. Here I saw pine siskins, pine grosbeaks, chipping sparrows -- but no crossbills. I left here later in the morning, as it did not seem like a good place for crossbill research. Yellowstone itself looked like good Type 5 habitat with lodgepole as the primary forest tree. I continued E on Hwy. 212 over the high passes (Colter to Beartooth) and down to Red Lodge, Montana. It was storming from here through Billings. I then got onto I 94 and drove into North Dakota, when I slept at a wayside between Dickinson and Bismarck. July 10 Drove E on I94 to Fargo, North Dakota, and then continued E on Minnesota Hwy. 10. to Detroit Lakes, where I continued E on Hwy. 34 to