Field notes, v1377
Page 607
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Journal 146 R.E. Johnson 1967 Sept. 1 Red Mtn, L.O., Highland Mtns, Silver Bow Co., to Lost Creek State Park, Montana (Librarian) & to get maps at Montana Bureau of Mines. Drove to Lost Creek State Park in Deer Lodge Nat Forest on the east side of the Flint Creek Range. Camp empty (fire closure) & creeks & Lost Creek Falls cold & full. Located the amazonstone vein beside the falls & obtained specimens (very faded green). Stuffed the 2 birds collected this morning. Sept. 2. Lost Creek State Park to Glacier National Park, Montana Drove to Missoula to return items borrowed from Dr. Hoffmann & then to Bigfork to see Dr. Brown & on to Glacier Park. The Sharps were camped at Aggar Campground. The Glacier Wall Fire had crossed the Logan Pass Rd & the road is closed. Sept. 3-12. Glacier National Park, Montana Did no collecting & did not visit the alpine zone. The whole North Fork District of Glacier Park is closed due to high fire danger and the Going-to-the Sun Rd over Logan Pass remained closed due to a fire. All The Montana National Forests were closed also, thus no collecting was possible. Worked at Park Headquarters until 9PM Sept. 12, then drove to Browning. Sept. 13 Browning, Montana to Butte, Montana Drove to Great Falls in the rain & the skies looked black ahead of me. Checked the weather forecast in the newspaper and called the weather bureau. Rain & snow expected to follow me through Wyoming into Colorado. I reversed directions & drove to Butte, called Suzanne Goodman for a date & we dined at Lydia's & spent the evening at the Camera Club looking at slides of Chile. She was back down from the lookout due to several strikes of