Cogswell 1949 Aug 8-19 Journal 72A Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif (SUMMARY) 13. Three-year old burned forest - Dominants: Epilobium angustifolium, Oteris aquilina, Serophularia sp., an overlasting, various composites. Invaders: on lower slopes & up draws - alnus rubra, Ribes sp. many dead snags & stumps from old forest. 14. Low chaparral - Dominants: Gaultheria Rododendron occidentale shallon, Oteris aquilina, Epilobium angustifolium, Ribes sp., et al. Found only on seaward face of first ridge E. of lagoon, at altitudes of 100 - 700 ft. It is probably successional to the next. 15. High Chaparral - Dominants: Canotthus thyrsiflorus, Myrtis californica, Baccharis pilularis & some of the dominants of the last in the interstices also a few aristotaphylos columbiana. or as understory. Exists only as a zone between the last and coniferous (usually redwood) forest on the same ridge, E. of the lagoon. 16. Sandy beach - the bar across the lagoon, between it & the ocean (seen only from a distance). 17. Gravel & cobblestone beach - surrounds the lagoon on the S. & E. sides, except for the marshy em- bayment across which the highway bridge ex-tends. It supports a scanty vegetation of sedges & other herbs & where covered by soil above is more or less comparable to # 4 (see p.60) 18. Douglas fir - Tanbark oak - madrone forest - [strikethrough] areas on top of ridge E. of maple Creek, not seen by me, but reported by Dr Miller & Mullion].