Field notes, v567
Page 195
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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