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[[underlined]] Strawberry Butte [[/underlined]]
Abies subalpina & Pinus albicaulis grow up to within a few hundred feet of the top as stunted dwarfs. The peak is stark & looks perfectly bare but Coville found plants to the top.
  Logomys were heard in the rocks on its sides.
  I remained on the ridge & shot Logomys & 5 S. columbianus & Tamias.
  Boreal Zone begins below our camp, generally at about 6000 feet & is marked by a full set of plants, birds & mammals of its own.  Transition Zone covers much of the Blue Mt. region.

[[underlined]] July 14 [[/underlined]]  Caught a Martin & some other good mammals. Started back for camp at 8:30 & traveled a little S. of E. down the slope till we reached Bear Cr. too far to the east.  Had to follow down the creek about half a day before coming out to the valley. Crossed ridge & struck Antelope Creek at lower end of big meadow & camped at head of the meadow at a sulphur spring. Saw one deer & killed a blue grouse & Coville & Allen each killed a Sage grouse.
  Bear Creek is a fine trout stream & flows through beautiful pine woods full of deer. The woods are mostly open and grassy beneath the trees. Pinus ponderosa & Larix occidentalis are large & handsome trees.
  Came about 20 miles.
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