Field notes, v672
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Feathers Boys Prairie Prairie Creek State Park, 240 ft., '1935. Humboldt Co., Calif. (cont.) Oct. 7, 1935- the trunk from about two feet above the ground to a height of seven feet. The tree was three feet in diameter. Gashes in the wood torn from below, indicated the work of a bull elk. Later on, farther inland, we found another such tree. Elk sign was fresh and plentiful from the tops of the bluffs to about a mile inland. From there on to camp there was little fresh sign. In places within the one mile belt near the ocean we saw sword fern roots with the leaves eaten off, which had evidently been either pulled from the ground during the elk's feeding or dug up with the hoofs. We found two beds of elk in old rotted redwood. The rotten wood had been scattered and a slight depression made in the center. The beds were some five feet or more in diameter. As we continued our walk from where we struck the Upper Gold Bluff trail we heard two chipmunks and saw a doe and fawn deer. We arrived in camp about 4:30 P. M., having walked about 12 mi. by trail. Oct. 8, 1935. Russell and I left camp at 6:40 A. M. One and one half miles west of camp, on the Upper Gold Bluff trail, Russell shot a chickaree,