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May 15, 2000
95 miles walked (driven over Columbia)
Location: (UTM) 11T0271523/5195039, 1000ft.
Temperature and Weather: 75 degrees, clear and sunny, no breeze
Habitat: Dry and rocky, sagebrush and short grass. Small daisies blooming and purple sage. One horned lizard found in flat rocky area.
2:30PM
100 miles
Location: 10T0719618/5194642; 1700ft.
Temperature and Weather: 85 degrees, little breeze, sunny and hot
Habitat: A few types of sagebrush, lots of tall blue-purple lupin, linear leaf daisy, yarrow, some kind of blue-purple snapdragon, a few patches of small, bright yellow Oregon sunshine, purple sage. Very dry and rocky, exposed soil - more desert-like, one medium-sized brown and black rattlesnake spotted on trail, one rabbit, lots of grasshoppers and small green insects that bite.
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