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Coquille
1949
Journal
125
Sep. 11 (cont.) - Red Mtn. of Beegum, Trinity & Tehama
Cts., Calif. (cont'd - see pr. 124)
3. Begun Meadow - a fine, moist mountain
meadow, surrounded by more or less typical
Sierim type coniferous & black oak forest.
Some Douglas Fir still mixed in mesophytic slopes.
4. S-facing slope of ridge between middle & north
forks of Beegum Creek - patches of Deigger
Pine, live-oak (Q. chrysolepis or ? sp), and
cercocarpus betuloides, arctostaphylos sp., &
ceanothus integerrimus.
canyon of
5. N-facing slope of N. Fork Beegum Cr -
forest of Douglas Fir, yellow Pine, Sugar Pines,
Black Oak, & Golden cup oak with several
madrones, Cornus nuttallii, & Comylyus rostrata
in the understory near the bottom of the canyon.
along the stream itself is a fine riparian
strip of alder (presumably Alnus rhombifolia)
and maple. There is a public camp ground along
the stream just above the road.
5. facing slope opposite the above - typical
upper Sonoran Deigger Pine - chaparral, with
cercocarpus betuloides & arctostaphylos canescens
(2) prominent.
vegetation
6. Bakers Flat Creek - a repetition of the
relations of the 2 slopes of N. Fork of Beegum Creek,
but the stream is dry where the road first
reaches it. Then the road parallels the middle