TRACHT, J. 1990 Journal 72 Little Colorado River 5½ miles W. of Holbrook Navajo Co., Arizona. Elev. 5300 ft. August 18 I left Juni at 13:30 and arrived in Holbrook at 15:45 and went to the county office buildings on the S. side of town. There I got asked whom to talk to for permission to work in an riparian forest W. of town. I then drove W. 10 miles to Herosino, where I met water district manager Floyd Hansen, and got permission to work in the area I preferred. This was about a mile long stretch of medium & large cottonwoods growing on the north bank of the river. These trees grow in discontinuous skins of different ages, generally older & larger trees being more removed from the river bank. Beneath most of the cottonwoods, which grow here fairly closely together, travel is fairly easy. The morphology varies with the particular forest. Several are dominated by a fruit-bearing shrub I don't recognize, which is difficult to traverse where it occurs. Tamarisk attains large size & dense bosque between the cottonwood groves, and coyote willow is widespread but not very tall in the near-river-bank areas. There are a few patches of coyote willow elsewhere, too. Here, too, are greases and forbs in good density and variety. Shrubs in- trude as one gets a distance from the river; in pastures in various stages of abuse. Still farther to the N. is the ATSF railroad tracks. I made camp at "Bonzaca", an old RR site, near an old dam on the river, smacked by a few large cottonwoods; I was unable to use these for shade, and pitched my tents on a gravel/sand fence land by the tracks. A rock between me and the tracks shielded me from some of the noise.