1. Code 1959 29 May cent forest is quite extensive and extends several miles laterally from the river. Elsewhere it is mostly a fringe forest along the river. The last of the sphere was near in the deep canyon a few miles above the mouth of the Kelley River. Rocky cliffs are not abundant along the river and especially along the lower reach below the Hell. There are long stretches with no true bluff- like formation of any sort. There is one series of good rocky outcrops about 10- 15 miles above the mouth, then another of 10 miles or so in the canyon above the Hell that looks good for raptors. Farther up there are lots of steep earth banks but few true outcrops. Still the former may be suitable for hawks. The cut out of the Noatak valley at Feminik Lake and crossed over the Brooks Range, following the west branch of the Kewa north to the Colville. After crossing the range our visibility to the ground became badly obscured by low clouds nearly to the coast. But I was able to see