Rietzmann 1959 Apr McCloud to Burney Highway #89 predominate brush: Cercocarpus (?) and Manzanita afew 2 needle pines - and firs > 575 photo at edge of meadow - forest denser patches of snow 576 into a fir forest > 578 photos; hilly 579 Dead Horse Summit evidence of old lumbering with most dead wood old lumbering RR - but rails taken up - some current lumbering > 581 *9 photo Jeffrey pine (?) alittle Libocedrus the mainly fir 583.0 Shasta Co. line. Douglas fir; this is high transition forest no brush for sometime dense regrowth all along here 596 Dickson Flat, Shasta Co. a meadow recently flooded due to snow melt - grasses under water to 1 ft as far as I could see. Just caught a small garter snake from a crab in a fallen log. Then one in the grass 10 yds from the water. Saw two and in water about 20' from land - water 8" deep. With the aid of a long stick I cought the two swimming - one bit me. The latter two were the largest and were together when caught - the yellow dorsal lines made them evident - and their heads held just above the water line. Where they were caught was a huge mass of frog eggs which I didn't collect.