Travel Day July 7 Herb: Lithophila Birds ( all ? Lesser Goldfinch, while some to [illegible] were H.O.) : White-throated Swift House Wren Violet-green Swallow House Finch Common Raven Lesser Goldfinch Black-capped Chickadee Mammals: Striped Skunk Rock Squirrel Cliff Chipmunk mule deer - 3875' Beaver Dam Wash of Santa Clara River, Washington Co. Utah. July 8 From Zion National Park, I followed Utah State Highway 9, to Interstate Highway 15, going SW about 7 miles to St. George, Utah. Here I turned west at a signed exit for the town of Santa Clara. I passed through Santa Clara on the road continuing northwest toward Drumlock, Utah. At a T-intersection, with the paved road going north and south, I continued instead NW on a gravel road toward Moleague. After about 13 1/2 miles, I turned south on another gravel road and followed this to the Nature Conservancy Beaver Dam Wash property. This property lies between reaches with similar riparian habitat. If, as Belle wrote me, goldfinches were numerous here, I would have sought permission to collect on one or more of the adjacent properties. This was not the case, however. Beaver Dam Wash is a riparian corridor through an extension of the Colorado Desert into extreme SW Utah, just W of the margin of the Colorado Plateau. Elevation is approx 2750 feet. Associated to the surface water here is an outstanding riparian gallery woodland. This woodland consisted mostly of medium to very large Fremont