J.P. Villiers 1975 Journal MacIntyre, N. of Prudhoe, Beaufort Sea Coast, Alaska 4 July (Cont'd) After walking ~0.5 miles along a gravel road, and seeing no life birds for the secretary, the group somehow turned around. I suspect a consensus was reached when the secretary said that he'd already seen Tryngite in Texas. ergo there was no need to see farther. Poor Russell, never having seen a buffle, was ready to bolt from the party and sprint the last 0.5 mile to where they were supposed to be. On the way back, talking w/ USFWS people, we learned that Tryngite credibly appeared almost every year. We also found that Mr. Weller, to whom I was indebted for Maurice Rawlins' name, was back at camp. We (Peter Connors + I - PC had known Weller in New Zealand) hurried back ahead of the main party so as to be able to talk briefly w/ Weller. See trip list or birds seen. By air: MacIntyre to Uniat, on the Colville River, Alaska Departed from MacIntyre at 7:30. Heading inland, the terrain quickly picked up a rolling aspect. Before that, along the coast, there were numerous pings, as well as extensive ponds and low-center polygons. One impressive, + disturbing feature of the whole coastal plain, it would seem, is the ubiquity of tracks- these have been vallagous and weasels everywhere. This is particularly true near Prudhoe and Barrow - but even mile from any current inhabitation, one flies across tracks - stretching as far as the naked eye can resolve, unending except for a brief scurry around a lake. Bearing the coastal plain on a conscious first of the relief around streams and rivers, perhaps by perceiving the gradual of the path of a river that flows somewhere - and down - rather than are meandering across a flat plain. Soon after that point, however, the ridges alongside the streams became prominent and addable. Undeniable: First, the vegetation changes to what appears to be a tussock or bunch grass - hectare upon hectare. These are what appear to be bare gravel hillsides, and the pings. become much less frequent. But the most striking feature is the lack of polygons except in the low areas between ridges, those not cut by streams - i.e. what appears to be poorly drained meadows - the stream and river bottoms themselves,