Field notes, v1360
Page 157
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Hoffmeister 1939 Itinerary Twin Buttes, 4300 ft., 2 1/2 mi. SW Steamboat Mtn., Skamania Co., Wash. Left for this base, stopping enroute at Twin Butter Ranger Station were Bufo and Lana were collected. Also had to help repair the flat tire on the Dodge truck. Continued to this spot which is approximately 1/4 mile east of the lookout tower or one of the buttes of the 2 designated as "Twin Buttes"; this butte being called Lookout Mtn. This region possibly has been burned over several years ago as the trees are sparse in this general region and not very high. The trees constituting this forestation included: Pinus monticola, Pinus contorta, Picea Engelmanni, Tsuga Mertensiana, Populus trichocarpa, Abies spathalis, Larix occidentalis. Collected a Citellus lateralis ? about a 1/4 mi. from camp last evening. After shot, the specimen was still holding in its mouth a large piece of fungus growth it had been eating. Continued to Cayuse Meadows, which was an arduous trip as 1 1/2 mile of the journey was by foot through thick forest country, previously burned and logged. Set out 48 traps in an isolated small meadow (one of the several which go to constitute Cayuse Meadow). Revisited traps this morning reaching this meadow more readily via the Squaw Butte trail which runs from the main road from Trout Lake to Mosquito Lake.