Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4402
Page 537
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
1. Cade 1959 General Account 26 6 June Peters-Schroeder Lakes - Clear all day until about 1930, North wind blowing all day around 15 mph brought in low clouds in the evening with ceiling of less than 200 ft and visibility of about 1 mile. 1000 - left camp for a walk up Carnivore Creek, Walked up the east side (right limit), going about 3 miles above the mouth - to a point half a mile above where the stream from the next glacier south of Chambers Glacier flows into Carnivore. There is a large dike (movarite from the glacier) almost closing off Carnivore Creek at the point of entrance of this creek, Passed through a series of wet meadows much trampled by last year's herd of some 30,000 caribou. An interesting point about the trampling - where the ground had been disturbed to the point that the vegetation was gone - creating muddy patches within the meadows, there the shovelnose were concentrated to forage in the mud. Apparently these trampled areas create favorable habitat for invertebrates.