Observ.
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Unknown species of shooting star. The only white shooting star I have seen in the Sierra. Above 11,000' on north side of Colby Pass. Has five petals, long narrow leaves without red at the base or on the stem. Possibly albino subalpine shooting star, color (no dark center) and leaves seem wrong for a Padre's shooting star.
Observ.
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Foxtail pine at lake at the east end of the Sawtooth-Needham ridge. A very fine stand of foxtails is there.
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Pino de Corteza Blanca (Pinus albicaulis)Observ.
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Whitebark pine with foxtail pine in the background, slopes southwest of Kern-Kaweah River.
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Pino Enano (Pinus flexilis)Observ.
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Furthest west I have seen a limber pine in SEKI. On the shore of the lowest lake on Picket Creek. There was another probable on the divide between Picket Creek and Kaweah Basin, but with no cones to confirm the identity I will still list that one as probable.
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Pica Americana (Ochotona princeps)Observ.
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In the same place I saw one in 2012, at 11,300' in Kaweah Basin. We sat 15 feet away and watched it scurry about for grass, it pretty much ignored us.
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Pica Americana (Ochotona princeps)Observ.
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Brief observation right by the shore of Hamilton Lake. I wasn't expecting to see one at that low elevation (8235').
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Pica Americana (Ochotona princeps)Observ.
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Watched it for about 15 minutes running in and out of its burrow.