144 Journal R.E. Johnson 1967 August 31 Highland Mtns, Silver Bow Co., Montana (cont.) [ & Madison Co., Mont. ] Mtn (10,223), the highest in the range. Saw Water Pipits, Pine Siskins, Clark Nutcrackers, and Audubon's Warblers between Red Mtn & Monument Pk along the ridgetop. Timberline is at 9000 ft (± 200 ft.) so that the L.O. & all of the days hiking was well above timberline. The mtns are barren except for small herbs growing in the extensive talus slopes (talus slopes cover 90% of the area observed) & a few patches of good alpine turf. Therefore the birds previously mentioned were not in trees but on rocks & cliffs. Cliffs are few however, limited to a few near vertical ones in places at the head of the cirque above Emerald Lake and some more gently sloping rock faces on the ne slope of Monument Pk. Turf was found on the ridgetop so. of the cirque & up a so. running ridge from there (max. elevation 10039). Species included: Lupines, Geum rossii cinquefoil (same species as seen in Flint Crle Mtns, Elkhom Pk, & Big Belt Mtns) (pinnate leaves), Spotted Saxifrage, Carpet Pink, & Eriogonum. Conys & Golden-mantle Ground Squirrels were seen nearby in rock slides. A Rock Wren was heard on a sw slope. Fish were jumping in Emerald Lake. Yellow-bellied Marmots were seen on the slides above Emerald Lake. Plants on rockslide above Emerald Lake: Aster, Arnica, Red Heather, Mtn. Sorrel, Speedwell, Sedge, Penstemon virrens, Buttercup, Parnassia, Paint Brush, Senicio & White Heather (Cassiepa). A few snowpatches remain on north slopes. Hiked down to Emerald Lake which is at Timberline. Rockslides come down to the waters edge on the W & so, and nearly reach the water on the south. A small meadow fringes the south shore. The east shore has a forest of spruce,