Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4402
Page 269
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R. Cade 1957 General Account 13 June - cent Spent about an hour watching the jiegers about 7.3-7.4. Returned to village about 1300 and ate late breakfast. Note on weather and phenology: ever since we arrived on 10 June, the sky has been clear with bright sunshine. There were some early morning clouds today, but otherwise clear skies still prevail. The wind has been moderately strong and N-easterly all the time but around 1200 today it switched, and is now moderate to light and from the West. Crispophorum turcetum are green at the bases and there are a few heads shedding pollen, but most of these seem to have been eaten by the lemmings. Cassy is queening in the troughs, three new no flowers to date. At 1400, a fog came rolling in with the SW wind, and ground visibility is now about 2000 feet. Made the evening run of the troops early and returned to village to prepare to leave to- mosaw and to clear up the quarters I have been occupying in the school. Caught two more lemmings by hand - one looks pregnant. Low fog gone at 1700 - now high ridges above - temperature dropped from the fifties into the thirties.