Field notes, v567
Page 167
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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