Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral
Date: August 2
Page Number: 2543
on ridges, not down on or at the edges of meadows
or in stream bottoms; but even so, cattle are sort
of aquatic beasts, and spend a good share of their time
mushing (??) about in boggy places. Perhaps their feet
built for just that sort of ground, are less comfortable
up on the hard ground of the dry ridge. Anyway, as
I see the problem, any cattle whatsoever are
destructive to the high-mountain country, scenically,
recreationally, florally and faunally, and, most emphatically,
from the standpoint of water-conservation. For
all the parts of California, watered either by
irrigation or by underground sources, from Sierra streams, are dependent
on the precipitation, and retention of water, on the slopes
above the 3500-foot contours.
6317-6321 Frogs (Rana pretiosa?), five of them, taken yesterday
afternoon at smaller lake near (west of) Lake Helen.
There were a good many of these frogs in the (unknown1)
margin of this lake, about one to every yard, of
varying sizes (of specimens taken); but I saw no
tadpoles. The behaved differently from boyli in
the Yosemite section, in that they did not "plop" into
the water from perches on the bank, but were
resting (?) already partly submerged on rocks at the
edge of the water and simply swam out in a
semicircle of 2 or 3 foot radius and
back to shore, when alarmed. They were
easily caught by hand, pounced upon with
little adroitness; indeed, in some cases the
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