J.P. Myers 1975 Journal By air: Maclntyre to Uniat, on the Colville River, Alaska 4 July varying in size, are similar in that all have small channels of water with broad, base, sand and gravel flood plains. Only in a few places does a stream seem to meander, and when it does it is usually through a polygonized area of some extent (rather than the isolated polygon interpersed in the ridge). Entering into the Colville River valley, however, one encounters a whole different scale of organization. We approached Uniat from the NE; coming into the river from the E, one first passes over a broad area of ponds, low center polygons, and lakes. Presumably this is an area which long ago may have been leveled by the river; thus the reduced drainage polygonization ensured and the a topography similar to the coastal plain is achieved.?? We then flew upstream, going over the series of old and new channels, the gravel banks, the willow flats, which must be characteristic of rivers of this area. Moose. (3) By the time we reached Uniat the hills along the W side of the river were high - perhaps 400'-600", and obviously being eroded by the river, with bare ridges, faced cliffs reaching down to the flowing water. Uniat itself appears to lie in an area where just upstream from where the river valley narrows considerably - at Uniat it is perhaps 2-3 miles wide w/ significant hills defining the edges (as opposed to what I described downstream). Uniat, Colville River Valley, Alaska We landed c. 1830-1700, debarked, and went off with the same strategy as used at Maclntyre - a random walk. Again, with time (wasted time) the group collapsed. Schteschinger was hot for finding an arctic warbler - there was a single up of purpose which reminds me of the bell headed new w/ which we bombarded Hanoi. (to draw an appropriate analogy). Cade was hot to show him one- so much so that every Acanthis luzz or Passerulus song became a Phylloscopus. Perhaps Cade wanted to spend a little time as possible hunting birds amidot the marguitos. I suspect not. Incidentally, according to Russell + Peter (+ Russ would know), although Cade may be an ornithologist he is not an all purpose bird watcher (White, i). Greenberg was inquisitively the