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April 29, 1950
Left Corvallis with Robt Storm and Don
at about 8:30. Needed first out K-way
20 to Foster, then out road to Quartzville.
Stopped first at Coal Creek, about 5 mi. E.
(byroad) of Foster Bridge across Santiam
R., Linn Co., Oregon. This is a rather
steep-sided little canyon with slopes heavily-
covered with Douglas Fir, Hemlock, and Alders.
The soil is very gravelly and rocky, with
heavy leaf litter and leaf mold. A heavy
layer of moss covers much of the exposed
surfaces, including trees, etc. Don tooks
one Plethodon dunni from a loose rocky
slide-face (slight seep here); Bob looks
one Ensatina e. oregonae from beneath
bank slab, & 2 L. dunni from beneath
wood & rocks on soil.
Drove on up Quartzville Road, paralleling
Quartzville Creek, to Polley Mine (gold?) --
at bridge across Trout Creek where it
joins Quartzville Creek. The Trout
Creek is next one up canyon from
Moose Creek locality mentioned in Bushop.
(Moose Creek & Santiam River - should be
Moose Creek & Quartzville Creek) The
locality (Polley Mine) is 1/2 mile up
Quartzville Creek from a Township
marker which reads:
Township 12 S, Range 3 E., Willamette Meridian
between sections 98 & 6 (1/2 way between
E. & W.)
This area is heavily-grown with im-lumbered
stand of Douglas Fir and Hemlock; near the
(about 16.5 miles up Quartzville
Rd. from Foster Bridge)
(Go')
(Linn
Co.)