Journal 48 Meade River, Alaska 22 July. Arrived at about 22:00. We were met by Art McKee, Jim Heritt and Roger Bernard. The first thing I noted was the striking difference in vegetation which is lush and far more varied than at Barrow. There were many plants which reminded me of the flora of the Beartooth Mountains in Wyoming. Before I retired I checked the Pectoral Sandpiper nest which Paul de Benedictis had located on his census plot. 23 July. The mosquitoes were not as bad as yesterday, when we arrived. They are at present by far the most abundant and conspicuous insect. On several occasions today we looked for insects on the ground and vegetation and except for some minute dipterans there was nothing to be seen. In the morning, it was a cloudy day, I walked upstream along the river for about 1-2 km. The vegetation again struck me as being very rich in species, the genera of which I recognized as being similar to the alpine of the Beartooths. Mints. Along the river bluff the willows grew to heights of one meter. The river had gone down considerably since the spring break-up and now showed some sand bars and extensive sandy stretches of shore line. The eskimos in the village, fishing with nets, catch both whitefish and grayling. There is a considerable amount of sand dune formation. In the afternoon Tom and I walked downstream past the village, to where the triathlons are on the flood plane of the river. While we were out there Steve arrived.