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EL Koshkum
1955
Journal
June 27 Warm clear skies, mosquitoes ferocious! no adults. Rare
collected. Brewer's blackbirds nesting in area.
Next stop about 3/4 mile E x SE the Riggle, 8200 ft.
Dork collected a subadult Bifor braws in a perfect garden
hole close to an
This is our altitude record for brown in the dioma,
to my knowledge, and please browns 9 airline miles north
of Elbert's Pass converse at even equivalent elevations.
We turned off Blue Lake road to Indian Valley. Fair
dirt road (not on old topor sheet) was possible to
within a mile or less of the lakes in Indian Valley. A
stream crossing gullied deep stopped me. According to
the sign this road goes thru to Marbleville. Day
3 p.m.
continued warm and clear. We hiked into Indian Valley, across
it to an old cabin, then checked a number of canyon
draws on E side of Valley. Sagebrush over much of slope,
some streams flowing but slight. This appears to be too
arid a brown for roads. Hyler and Brown were present
in the lake vicinity and at slender meadow ponds just
W of the lakes. Koshkums #2 & #3 found 5 across
Indian Valley. Supper at lower Blue Lake, a rocky
morning artificial-looking lawn. Returned to the Riggle
dwality 8:00 p.m. where we collected one adult tool.
no others seen and no calls. Search of Chauty Valley
and dwality fruitless 9 p.m. but a single
subadult found on road 1/4 mile from the pond
site on road to Faith Valley. We continued drive
through Faith Valley and reached highway 88
9:35 p.m. During drive down West Canon