Kawich Expedition field journal, v4293
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28 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