Shreve, John 1991 Journal South Fork Kern River Wildlife Area 3 miles W of Weldon Kern Co., California. Elevation 2500 feet. July 9-11 Kern River Reserve itself, since I would not be permitted to collect (CoPt) goldfishers on the property. We drive Keles Creek Road SE of Weldon, desert a road paralleling a creek with intermixed riparian woodland, but this area was not productive for goldfinches. We then visited the South Fork Kern River Wildlife Area, the parcel just W. of the Reserve, & likewise driving the river course through it. The place was alive with green goldfinches. We first visited an area on the N. side of the river accessible off Sierra Way (the road to Kernville). Then, since Lake Isabella was so low and had been for a few seasons, we visited the young riparian growth that had claimed some of the former lake bottom on the west side of the property. We then drove to south shore of Lake Isabella, scanning the lake and sane for birds. Clearly, the wildlife area would easily provide for my sample needs. The habitat at the South Fork Kern River Wildlife Area is a Fremont Cottonwood-dominated riparian woodland on the within broad flood plain of the South fork of the Kern. The river valley line is bounded on the N. by the Eastern Sierra Nevada, on the E. by the Fescue Mountains, on the S. by the Paiute Mtns, and on the W. by Lake Isabella and the Greenhorn Mountains beyond. The floodplain is 1-2 miles broad and pretty flat for about seven miles above Lake Isabella. The wildlife area in that portion of the flood plain's riparian area W. of Sierra Way, apparently extending all the way to the lake, are some 3 1/2 - 4 miles distant. The addition of cottonwoods there is a considerable dominance of Broadwing's Willow and Ash, with seeming age / size classes of trees