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D.A. Good
1982
Journal
Bear Creek, Bitterroot Natl Forest to Copperking Campground,
Lolo Natl Forest, Montana
24 June
Started out from Bear Creek after having breakfast, etc.: ca.
0830. We drove back out to US 93 and then N to Lolo. From
there W to Lolo Ranger Station where I picked up a Lolo
Natl Forest map. Then W on Montana 238 (dirt road) to
Howard Creek Meadow where we spent an hour or so turning
logs looking for Genhorstus. We found only 2 Themnophus
antalis, both much less colorful than the one caught at Bear
Creek. Ca. 1200 we drove back out to US 12 and then E
to jet Mont. 489. Then N to Mont 489 to I 90, W on I 90
to St. Regis. Then N on Mont. 135 to jet Mont 207 on which
W to jet Mont. 56. Then N on Mont. 56 to Copperking Campground,
which we reached ca. 1500. We had stopped for lunch at
the jet. Mont 489 and I 90. At Copperking Campground we decided
to go fishing in the Thompson River N of camp but had
a short in one of the wires in the car which it took some
time to fix. Then back to camp for the rest of the day.
The vegetation at Howard Creek Mdw (which was the
broad floor of a fairly shallow E-W valley with a small
stream running through it) was primarily open grassy
pastureland with scattered lodgepole pine and fewer Douglas
fir. Up the slopes from the valley was primarily lodgepole
forest.
The area around the evening's camp is primarily
Douglas fir with some Ponderosa pine and hardwoods, although
camp itself is surrounded by western redcedar.
Still no Genhorstus; as I feared, they don't seem to be