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Adaven (Sharp #3). At Adaven I
saw 5 Gambel Quail, 2 Mockingbirds,
a Wood Pewee, Mt. Bluebird, and
2 Lark Sparrows. We drove
north about 18 miles on the east
side of the Quinn Canyon Range to
Scofield Canyon. The valley floor
here is covered with Artemisia and
Chrysothamnus (where I saw a Mockingbird)
and the lower slopes are Purshia-
covered. The Purshia and a Rosaceae
of some kind (
) form large thick shrubs. The
foothills are grown to pinyon and
juniper. These trees form a dense
woodland above about 6000' .
About 8000' there is an abandoned
sawmill. It is located at the ecotone
of the Pinyon-Juniper-White Fir -
Ponderosa Pine Zone. Most of the
trees logged were perhaps P. ponderosa,
but much of the fir was logged too.
Pockets of fir (some seeming virgin,
occur regularly from the logging camp to
the base of the peak where there is
considerable slope. Above the canyon
there is a mixture of P. Ponderosa,
Abies concolor, Pinus flexilis, and L. aristata.
Mt. Mahogany covers large tracts chiefly
on the south facing slopes about 8500'
Populus tremuloides and Salix sp. are in