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Cogswell
1949
Journal
Sep 6
Red Mtn, 5300 ft. 14 mi S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Calif.
Caught the following in my line of 40 traps,
about 15 of which were set near a small dry
ravine in the open Jeffrey Pine - White Fir - Incense
Cedar forest and its rest thru adjacent shrubland.
2 Peromyscus maniculatus - during night
1 Cutaneus amoenus - " a.m. today.
From 7:30 - 11:00 a.m. I worked along the ridge to NNW
(there WNW) of camp for about 1 1/4 miles, to the
point where the Forest Glen & Dubabella trails
come to the road which follows the ridge. The
vegetation on the S facing slopes is (1) Jeffrey
Pine (Pinus jeffreyi) - Incense cedar (Libocedrus de.
currents forest graduating into large patches
of low Garry oak (Quercus garryana) trees or
shrub and, thence to a very desert-like area
of low spreading Ceanothus cuneatus with [illegible]
smaller areas of Arctostaphylos patula? and
Ceanothus cordulatus. There is considerable
bare, broken rock surface on the most exposed
ridge. In other parts, as at the head of a N-S
canyon the forest carries on across the ridge
to merge with the (2) Jeffrey Pine - White Fir - Incense
cedar - Douglas Fir forest on the N-facing slopes.
These 4 vegetation types (numbered 1 to 4 above)
are all within 100 feet altitude of the rounded
ridge top, which varies from 5300 - 5450 ft.
I walked a short distance (1/2 mile +/-) down the
Forest Glen trail S of the ridge, but otherwise stayed