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Gullian
1949
Journal
143
Aug 20 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.
Lizards scurry to shelter but couldn't collect with - nor identify them. Heard Acorn Woodpeckers, washed & into a burn to dry and collected them but was not able to. But did get a ? Sciurus on the edge of the burn. - Examined the Tan Oak habitat - found it to be mostly a successional stage in recovery from fire in Douglas fir forest or growing on soil too rocky for Douglas fir. The under-story of Tan Oak consists mostly of smaller oak, Madron fern, young Douglas firs, an occasional Black Oak Quercus kelloggii and some Poison Oak (see also following page)
Pure Douglas Fir forest habitat - consists of Douglas Fir as the single and dominant conifer, with under-story varying from g base dist to Oanothus and Bear Grass Xerophyllum tenax to a mixed under-story forest of Tan Oak, Madrone Arbutus menziesii, Chiriquipin Castanopsis chrysophylla, with salal Gaultheria shallon and bracken fern Pteris aquilina covering the litter of cones, needles leaves and limbs. Also seems to be an occasional black oak in this forest.
On the way back to camp I collected at