Field notes, v1313
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develops into the tree fully as large as most of the Firs. This a preference to call Douglas Fir-Tan Oak Forest. There is some Chinquapin and little Madrone mixed in this forest. The understory is mostly young Tan Oaks and firs, Some Broken Fern and a little Evergreen Huckleberry. In the habitat I have seen junco's, oven birds, Pileated Woodpeckers, Hermit Thrush and Blue-tailed Skink's. This also Salal and Bearberries as ground cover in this forest, with Grapes occasionally showing. Dropping down to Maple Sp on the inside of the ridge I collected a Water Snake, a at the spring collected a Steller Jay and heard chipin's but didn't take any. Looked for amphibians some, but none. The forest here again fits my Pure Douglas forest, with a few maples (A macrophyllum) about spring area. I looked for amphibs some more, found larvae in the gravel under the moss covered rocks. This Maple Camp Spring must be the only water for quite a distance, since I have been here 2-3 pm. both Chickadee, Steller Jayp, Hermit Thrushes, Empidonax and Red-breasted Nuthatches have all come to water here of this stream is bordered by Salal, Evergreen Huckleberry, a dogwood like plant. Cornus canalis.