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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Lassen Section (Brokeoff Mt.)
Date: June 17, 1925
Page Number: 2471

feet up behind a curled up section of thin bark on
a dead lodgepole pine of about 10 inches diameter;
mounds of snow all about; adjacent trees, hemlocks
and red firs. Bird comes with bill-full of insects,
and I can see the usual mass of twigs under the
open side of the lifted park.
2:45 p.m. - At about 7500 ft. alt.; off the trail to the
west, in one of the heads of Martin Creek; a ledge of
rock along the western wall of the canyon has broken off
to form a long talus slide, rocks up to a yard or more
in diameter. Here, as I hoped, I hear conies in the
typical association for them. At the fast of the Talus
apron the snow is just going, but a little grass is
coming up; also among the lowermost rocks some
stalks of red elderberry are showing leaf; out from
the Talus are mats of the prostrate arctostaphylos
nevadensis
; up along the ledges I can see clumps of
red cherry and chinquapin; the trees about are red
fir
. I hear a Rock Wren singing ventriloquially
from the rim-rock, which is well provided with crevices
and caverns. This may prove to be the westernmost station
for conies in the Lassen "section."
3:50 p.m. - Down to about 600-foot level, having
come thru willowy meadows, with the grass barely
above the earth, yet bands of restless cattle already
run onto them, to keep them grazed and trampled
down and the willows browsed up to 5 feet or so,
and no chance for young shoots to start.

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nbahet

unknown1 - some physical feature of the Talus; illegible to me.

kcorriveau

changed unknown1 to "fast"