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[[underline]] Ursus horribilis [[/underline]] - a big one said to live on the slope west of Black Lake. 
[[underline]] Vespertilio fuseus [[/underline]], one shot but not secured.
[[underline]] Microtus modesta? [[/underline]] - 1

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[[underline]] Up coyote creek [[/underline]]

[[underline]] Sept. 9. [[/underline]]  The horses went up the gulch so far we did not get there in time to move camp early so waited for lunch & took photos & wrote up notes and did specimens.  In afternoon moved slowly up to Black Lake & camped on its outlet in head of canyon.  Road very rocky & rough but not steep.  Came up from 8000 feet to 8500 on mesa above lake & 8400 at camp on or near level of lake.  Kept on north slope in Transition zone yellow pine forest till we entered the great grassy parks of the Black Lake basin.  These are surrounded with open yellow pine forest save on the cold slopes where Canadian zone species & Populus tremuloides come down. 

The lake is merely a shallow slough with numerous islands of Tules across it.  Its greatest length is not over 1/2 mile except as it grades off into a big wash that seems 2 miles farther north & yields lots of hay of a poor quality. 

Found a lot of blue winged teal, coots & a few grebes in the lake, but no signs of mammals around it.