Field notes, v1752
Page 579
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journal 205. ) broth 1987 Eastern Trip, Maine to New Brunswick July 21 laundry and had breakfast at a "Dunkin ( cont'd) Donuts". After this, I drove NE on the Interstate 95 to New Brunswick, Canada. I had a 1/2 hr. session at the border, with the shotgun and live birds, etc. The weather turned to less drizzle. I should mention that the forest showed less and less white pine northeastward, but the few had cones (green). The spruces and firs were producing no cones, nor was tamarack. I then drove through New Brunswick along the Trans-Canada Hwy. Here, along the St. John River, was an area of dairy farms, with red-winged blackbirds very common. Deciduous trees lined the river valley, and I could see spruces and firs at the higher side slopes. To cut to Moncton, I diverged from the T.C.H. and took 112 E. This went through an interesting area of spruce/fir + deciduous -- mostly white birch. There were numerous side dirt roads and no "no trespassing" signs so commonly seen in the U.S. I stopped