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- Sun. [Sunday] June 8/41 [1941]
Up at 7. Weather clearing. Drove
along road on N. [north] side Lac du Bois. Stopped
to catch Rana Pretiosa [underlined] along margin. At
first abandoned farm building [George J.] Spencer
found rattle snake under board. Took it
alive. Drove to east of road where [Ian McTaggart] Cowan
shot a bear and 3 cubs up trees;
2 black + 1 brown. Skinned female on spot
then brought carcass, skin + cubs in car to
cabin. Returned along road to end of
"hanging valley" where we found an old
skull of mountain sheep in creek bottom.
G.P. Holland + Jenne Harret up in evening.
June 9/41 [1941]
Went to Alkali or Poison Lake in A.M. [morning] to take
water sample, plankton sample + pictures with
the graflex. Examined ponds west of this
lake, finding larval salamanders and one
lone phyllopod (E. dadayi?) [Eubranchipus dadayi] in one pond.
After lunch drove north to McQueen Lake +
Pass Lake. After supper searched for
owls without success. [Ian McTaggart] Cowan got 1 calliope
hummingbird + 2 Poor whills [poorwill].
June 10 [1941]
In A.M. [morning] went with [George J.] Spencer down road to
town + up Herron Lease Rd to alkali lake
about 1 m. [mile] S. [south] of Sheep camp. Large numbers
of Artemia present in pond a little smaller
than Alkali lake in other valley - Took specimens
and samples of water; also plankton + algae.
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