1. Kawich Expedition, June 9-23, 1953 Field Notes, Ned K. Johnson June 9, 1953, Tuesday Ira La Rivers and I left Reno at 10:30 AM and proceeded in the army truck to Fernley, south through Yerington and Hawthorne and over to Tonopah. After dinner at Tonopah, we left at 8:30 PM on Highway 6 toward Ely. We turned south on a dirt road 35 miles east of Tonopah, and drove south into the northern foothills of the Kawich Mountains. At 11:30, since we saw no sign of Ernie Carl, the other member of our party, we camped on a sagebrush- covered flat. June 10, 1953, Wednesday. Arose at 6:30 A.M. Weather clear, cool, and a brisk west wind was blowing. Small wind clouds spotted the sky. Hoggthead Shrikes and Black-throated Sparrows were common in the thick sagebrush. After checking our bearings four or five times we proceeded southward through the sagebrush, shadscale, juniper, Eriogonum spinosum, and Oryzopsis hymenoides. The wind became stronger. We stopped at