Field notes, v1377
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B. E. Johnson 1966 Journal 22 Spar Lake, 3300 Ft., Lincoln Co., Montana (cont.) records for number of specimens prepared, and I'm the slowest of the group. We all went to check the traps set by Russell & Conard last night for the Marten we saw earlier. All traps (3) were empty & were rebaited using fish heads from Lake trout caught by another camper in the campground. June 20 Since we were running low on gasoline, we took both trucks and collected along the way toward town (Troy). We stopped in a logged over area full of cat-trails located approx. 1/4 mile E & 1/2 mile N of Spar Lake at 3100 ft. Some tall trees remain, mainly Western Red Cedar, Black Cottonwood, & Western Hemlock. Ground cover includes huckleberry, wild rose, willow, Queenscup Bead Lily, Foam Flower, bracken Fern, red twin berry, service berry, pipsissewa, twin flower, beargrass, & pink pyrola. Fairway Creek Road runs through the center of the cut. I collected three birds from the cutover area. A male Western Tanager was taken while singing from the lower side branches of a Western Hemlock. A yellow-breasted Sapsucker was collected from a cedar trunk, about five feet up. It was a male with a brood patch. One siskin was taken from a small (6) flock which moved rapidly from tree clump to tree clump. Several Red-breasted Nuthatches and Oregon Juncus