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[[underlined]] Stinking Lake [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Oct.30 [[/underlined]] - Took a horse & went 8 or 10 miles west of the lake but did not reach the divide. Came back over one of the highest ridges where I could see over the whole western part of the reservation. The top of this ridge was 7900 feet and I could see nothing much higher in any direction on the Reservation. The Mts. to the north, in Colorado are getting solid white with snow & look cold. Nut pines & junipers run nearly to the tops of ridges on hot slopes, so there is a pretty complete mixture of Upper Sonoran & Transition zones. This is also shown by Perodipus, Perognathus, Onychomys & lepus texianus at the lake. Still the dominant species are Transition over the reservation. The yellow pine timber is not so good to the west as farther north.

Came back around the south end of the lake, & saw 5 Canada geese in one of the arms. Several apparently deep arms of the lake at the south end are full of red heads & coots & other ducks.