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April 14, 1935
Found a dead doe but could not determine cause.  Not shot but carcass too old to post.  Had a delightful evening at Koenigs home with Sunday evening luncheon like we often have at home when there are good growths of Rubus - some Elderberry & lots of black & pin cherry.  The two latter furnish the bulk of the fruit available over much of the area.  Some huckleberry & wintergreen.

April 15, 1935
Out over project with F.C. Simmonds & Gross.  Snowing & cold & got worse during day.  First [[?]]lled chestnut-oak type on southern end of forest where stand improvement work consisted of removing a few old beech, & diseased oak.  Thinning very light 2 1/2 acres per man day.  Stand white & chestnut oak, scarlet & red oak, cucumber, ash, sugar & soft maple, Amelanchier, beech, cherry & dead chestnut & oaks predominating & cucumber & ash and maples next.  Deer population heavy.  All maple sprouts eaten, sassafras sprouts along clearing considerable, amelanchier & viburnum browsed heavily, willow aspen & Rubus quite heavily, all hemlock & pine heavily.  White & chestnut oak considerable but scarlet & red oak scarcely at all altho persistent leaves eaten to a limited extent.  Distinctly more browse where roads & trails cut.  Improvement thinning too light to be of material value in opening up area tho will produce some sprouts next year.  Even huckleberry browsed some.  Visited beaver pond.  Saw six beaver dams on head of small stream.  Animals cutting aspen, amelanchier & willow (not much of this because limited.
Saw a [[underline]] scaup[[\underline]] & a [[underline]] blue wing teal[[\underline]] in the beaver ponds and about [[underline]] 10 butterball & 6 scaups[[\underline]] on the Tyanesta Creek below

Transcription Notes:
Tyanesta Creek probably should be Tionesta Creek in Pa