This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] July 1 [[/underlined]] Started for Weber Lake by the short cut road but took several wrong roads & finally camped on the summit ^[[insertion]] at 7300 feet, [[/insertion]] a mile from the lake & overlooking it from the north. Set traps for Microtus & hunted Chipmunks. Traveled S.W. from Sierraville & soon left the sagebrush valley & followed up a creek among Yellow pines & firs to the sawmill, then up a steeper slope striking edge of Canadian zone at 6100 in steep N.E. fields, passing from P. ponderosa & jeffreyi, Libocedrus & Abies loweana to Abies magnifica, P. monticola, Acer glabrum, end at 7000 to P. Murryana. This change from Transition to Canadian is about 7 miles S.W. of Sierraville. Eutamias amoenus is common in Sierra valley & up to edge of Canadian zone. No species seen in Canadian. Several fresh bear & deer tracks were seen. C. chrysodiurus is common. An old quail & brood of tiny young were nearly trampled by our horses feet.