Field notes, v1313
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Shulow 1949 Journal. -186- Aug 21 French Camp 3100 ft Humboldt Co., Calif. of a burned snag, heard / Scrub Jay. Worked on down a dry stream bed, collected an Orange-crowned Warbler. Worked on down the slope to 3 large, burned Douglas Fir snags stand. Found ample evidence of Acorn Woodpecker workings there. Also what looks like nesting holes. Collected 1 ? Acorn Woodpecker and then started working up the hill towards camp, cutting to the right. After several hundred yards, after going thru a small stand of pure Madrone, I noticed a stand of Western Azalea Rhododendron occidentale. Going over to it I found a small stream, nevertheless seeping down the hillside. Some eels in it also. Looked for amphibians but found none. A short distance further heard and then collected a white- breasted Nuthatch. Cutting on up the hillside, came to a rock out cropping covered with poison oak - worked up it to the stand of very young Douglas Fir above, move on the flat of the ridge I found a small clump of Black Oaks, really a pure stand. On this slope develops a good Incense Cedar-Douglas Fir Open Forest habitat, in which,