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and also blooms before the middle of June. Wherever land had been 

 cleared and allowed to go back to a wild state, there were dense growths 

 of lupine. 



THE JUNCTION 



Years ago a road led from Glenora, skirting the base of the hills 



and joining the trail from Telegraph Creek at the Junction, four miles 



from the Stikine, up Telegraph Creek. The old road has long been 



in disuse, and most of it is now a poorly defined trail, used by moose 



Fig. D. Type of country seen in the lowlands of the Telegraph Greek region. 

 The terraces extending from the Stikine Eiver northward to the mountains are 

 covered mostly with poplar woods. Here and there clumps of spruce occur, with 

 occasional groves of lodgepole pine. At the time this photograph was taken. 

 May 26, 1919, and at the point shown, near the baSe of the hills, the poplars had 

 not yet leaved out, though four miles to the westward, near the river, the trees 

 were green with foliage. Telegraph Creek, the stream, flows along the bottom 

 of the narrow canon in the foreground. 



This is the habitat of moose, bear, and red squirrel, among mammals, of 

 Hammond flycatcher, Cassiar junco, robin, hermit thrush, and long-tailed chick- 

 adee, among birds. 



and other wild animals, but seldom by man. At the Junction there is a 

 small meadow by the side of the stream, and there we camped. Just 

 above this point the hills begin to rise rather abruptly. 



The Junction was our first collecting station. In some respects we 

 would have done better to have stayed near the river, for though the 

 distance was short and the altitude at the Junction but little higher, 

 there was an appreciable difference in temperature between the two 

 places, which was reflected in the plant life and in the birds. "While 



