18 June 1980 p2 Saw a young Blacktail Jackrabbit at about 7500 ft! also a chipmunk. trails tend to be wider, with more little side trails, and [illegible] fewer or no pellet groups. Possibly these are sheep trails? Or maybe Horns say? The country around Mt. Palmer looks like what I think of as good sheep country - very rugged, precipitous, lots of crevices and crannies. Generally well vegetated with sagebrush, smaller, more scattered pinyons. Numerous large junipers - I think that relative inaccessibility might have saved them from loggers; Margaret thinks that it is because of different growth conditions. I scanned much of the surrounding terrain with binoculars in the hope of seeing some sheep, but saw none. Birds seen on this trip include: Red-tailed Hawk, Scrub Jay, Clark's Nutcracker, Mountain Chickadee, Empidonax, Brown-headed Cowbird, Rufous-sided Towhee, Mountain Bluebird, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Junco, Raven, Common Bushtit We did not reach the summit of Mt. Palmer, but stopped a few hundred feet N of it on a sort of sub-summit. The summit itself might have been accessible if we had had more energy, time, and desire, but it would have been difficult. We arrived at our sub-summit at approx. 4 pm, sat and enjoyed the view and looked for sheep for about 1/2 hr, then started back along