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Found a little chipmunk like [[underlined]] Eutamias operarius [[/underlined]] on the very top of Thomas peak & got 2 specimens. Saw no more. Also got 2 Picoides & a female bluegrouse, all good records.

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the parks and open & on peaks, but the woods are carped in great part by the little blueberry (Vaccineum caespetosum?). Generally this has little fruit, but at about 10 000 feet there were a few ripe berries as well as a few ripe strawberries. Lower down in the burns there were abundance of red raspberries & spiney gooseberries, and the insipid blue currants and the little red gooseberries (R. oxycanthoides) run to the peaks.

Sheep are the principal stock in the mts. but there are not enough to eat half the grass this year. The big mesa parks from 9000 to 9500 feet cover miles of country & are still knee [[strikethrough]] d [[/strikethrough]] deep in grass. They are full of little lakes & streams and every basin is now full of water. There are lots of trout in the streams & the ducks are coming into the ponds. I counted 35 mallards [[insertion]] 132 [[/insertion]] and 3 greenwing [[insertion]] 139 [[/insertion]] teal in one small reservoir. There are no ranches on these mesas except farther east where some could be seen in the distance. The grassy parks are all in Canadian Zone & surrounded by aspen, spruce & fir timber. 

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reviewed -@meg_shuler