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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.