JPMyers 1974 Journal At Kasook, Mcode River, N. Slope Borough, Alaska 4 June (Cont'd) steady 15mph wind, and mostly solid sun. During the last 3 days melt off has cleared most of the tundra: from >75% overall (with bare ridges) to <10% overall. Runoff considerable, but the river has yet to melt. Large lakes still are frozen - e.g. #728, but with substantially cleared margins or at least ponding along the edges. Melting of other ponds quite inconsistent - some are melted cutally w/ even an inch or so of muck on the bottom, compared to others we still walk across. Immediate siped lakes show similar variation. But there is enough clear water so that purlais, oldsquaw, and white-front guise have separated + passed. Many pursuits act as if they have seen already (ice forced me out with an egg yesterday). Oldsquaw are not on nests yet. King Eider began flying around their evening (3 separate pairs), 2 separate groups of Arctic Loons, and fairly continuous displaying by Gavia adamsii. Our transects were unusually easy to put in, and STRAIGHT! #1 - beginning in the upland tundra it quickly plunged down a ridge, runs through 200m of Carex marsh, string bogs, and Arctophila ponds, and then back into higher ground, LCP's and finally Elymus sward down. #2 again starts on a ridge, gets into an short patch of lichen tundra, and then passes through a long stretch of upland LCP. It ends by plunging off a ridge onto a lake basin bordered by Carex marsh. #3 is largely in Carex Marsh and Arctophila lake margin, before running up into a flat polygon area. #4 Begins in a low area w/ string Carex and wounds, except the quickly enters upland tundra and low center polygons, and heads down a fenced LCP ridge, and then ends in string bogs beside a lake. See Maps. Grid © was placed around 710 (See map) w/ the transect lines serving to define y=1 of a 250m x 1000m (25ha) census plot. Most of it is LCP, but it varies from string bogs to a slight ridge with HCP's. Certain nutting species: Anas acuta, Clangula hyemalis, Ecto Pluvialis squatarola, Calidris melanotos, C. maritima, Calpica, Cypriella, Linnodromus s., Lagopus l., Calcaris lap., Panniculus sandvichensis. Also possible - Gavia arctica, Gavia stellata, Stercorarius pom, para, longi. How does the habitat differ here from Borrow? : 1) w/ River (Slopes of there is considerably more relief). 2) Sand from river bed causes under variation in