May 21 Russian Gulch State Park, 500 ft., Mendocino Co., Calif. and a half. Road (perhaps old logging road) it runs out into a trail and both have grown wild for long - trees down, fern and grasses growing abundantly. We stopped to bathe our feet in very cold little stream and saw a minnow, first sign of life (vertebrate) observed in Russian Gulch streams. We continued along trail in hope of coming out into main gulch, but turned back at 1:40 PM and half-run, half-walked back up in 28 minutes ascending about 400 ft. to the estimated 500 ft. level of the pine barrens. The redwood forest very damp and dense, thick with ferns, rhododendron, Equisetum, and such. We inspected a couple of gopher traps, which we had set few hours before, as we retraced our path back thru the pine barrens. Sun fairly scorched and sizzled down upon us; wherever Viola and Mrs. Grinnell stopped to dig out the lengthy root system of some noteworthy botanical specimen, I could be found prostrate. Inspected traps on way down North Trail again. One rat-trap in supposed Aplodontia run contained a Sorex vagrans in unspecimen-like condition. Species Observed: Eutamias townsendii - post in pine barrens California Woodpecker - pine barrens Western Winter Wren - redwood forest Sceloporus occidentalis - pine barrens