Field notes, v1313
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Gullion 1949 Journal 180 Sept 7 Red Mtn, 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork Trinity Co., Calif. The general heavy use of the various Crestlines. Back by the lookout tower I saw a Mantled Ground Squirrel but failed to collect it. At the same place I failed to collect a Nashville Warbler from a dense Tangle of Brewer Oak. Near the Red Mtn Guard Station I saw and fired at but missed another Mantled Ground Squirrel. Murray let me out just N of Red Mtn (the Guard Station and Lookout are both on the ridge E of Red Mtn) and, at 11 a. m. I saw 2 Barn Swallows pass by, both flying low, through the forest crown, calling back and forth. They were flying directly south. Heard a deer in the forest below me and Red-breasted Nuthatches and a Gray Squirrel are perching from the Pine-Cedar-Fir forest just west of me. There is a typical Fir-Cedar-Pine Open Forest on Red Mtn as ground camp. It is composed of White Fir (Abies concolor) (with a very little Douglas Fir mixed in), Incense Cedar, and Jeffrey Pines. The understory where it loses exist is almost entirely Manry Oak while the ground cover consists of Brewer Oak (Quercus breweri), Manzanita (Arctostaphylos Brown-Berry 10-3-58)