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May 2, 2000
#4
11:30AM
Location: (UTM) 11T04729852/5229713
Temperature and Weather: 50 degrees, windy and cloudy, after raining
Habitat: Been walking through small man-made canyon of mostly basalt (?) wheat fields and grassland - wildflowers: lupin, many big clumps of large yellow flowers that resemble sunflowers, also small yellow, white and pink. Just outside of Rosalia, near large highway. Some king of blooming trees - look like apple blossoms, but tree is more sprawling than upright - maybe shrub. One tall pine tree, short grasses. Trail muddy in some parts, pretty fresh deer prints.
Passed mile 15 marker on trail. One hawk sited,
not much other wildlife.
#5
5:30PM
15.9 miles
Stop in Rosalia
Location: 11T0468892/5235430
Temperature and Weather: 60 degrees, slightly cloudy, small breeze
Habitat: Ponderosa Pine, rocky outcroppings and canyons, clumps of sunflower-like flowers, short grass, small deciduous shrubs.
Comments: Near oil refinery. In canyon, a few patches of tall stinging nettles, much wetter area. Air smells like pine.
22.2
miles total
6:53PM
60 degrees Fahrenheit
11.89 miles total today. I am identifying some of the plants I saw today. Grays Desert Parsley-sagebrush steppe, rocky ravines Serviceberry-rocky slopes, sagebrush steppe, large shrub with fragrant white flowers Arrow-leaf Balsam root-sagebrush and high plains, colorful splash of yellow in broad expanses of sagebrush, steppe
Unsure-pretty sure same kind of balsam root,
sunflower-like flowers, very milky, soft leaves, grows in clumps with several
flowers
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