Berkeley, Alameda to, Talif. to 2 mi. SE Beegum, 1650', Tehama to., Calif. May 24, 1946 Left Berkeley at 7 a.m. in MV2 Dodge Truck, Ward Russell driving + Dr. A.H. Miller + I as passengers. We drove North on U.S. 99 W to Red Bluff, where we stopped to buy groceries. Then drove WNW from Red Bluff on Highway 36. The country along this road is park-like Blue Oak - Digger Pine, very dry, with short, dry grass undercover and little or no understory vegetation. We made camp at a point: -2 mi. SE Beegum, 1650', Tehama to., Calif. We are camped by a small creek at the base of a range of hills immediately to the NE. The slopes of these hills are covered with grass + scattered, stunted oaks + digger pines, or, in many places, especially toward the crest of the range, they are covered with a rather heavy growth of Adenostoma. Arctostaphylos is scattered over the hills sparingly, regard- less of the dominant type of vegetation. To the NW, and distant about 1/4 mile, is another range of hills, similarly vegetated, save that in some places along the crest of