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Calbreath
1942
Jun 15 South Fork Mt Lewis No Mad River Rock, El. 3160 ft Trinity Co.
west into the Mad River.
The vegetation on the south west slopes of South Fork Mountain is distinctly broken. In general the cover is distinct groups of Douglas Fir, Black Oak and open glades or grassland. The Douglas Fir stands also include associate species like hazelnut, Black Oak, Madrone and a few minor species. The Black Oak stands are pure stands with little if any grass cover beneath the canopy of the trees. The grasslands glades are free of any brush except on the edges where madrone comes in as a transition species between the grassland and timber in many places. In some of the canyon bottoms and associates with the manzanella thus at large patches of Snowberry Symphocarpos.
In yesterday's notes I neglected to say that the Salamanders #123 to 128 were found and are some flowing here at one of Riley's buildings. I believe the specimens represent one adult male and one female and four of this year.
Jun 16 I worked down the slope from camp to the Mad River and back this AM. The drop in elevation is 600 feet. An old