Marshall, 1939 Whitaker's Forest, Nov. 17-19 to be the lower edge of the yellow pine forest of the Sierran transition. The entire country had been logged & burned up to the 5000 ft. contour, and the forest had been replaced by a luxuriant & heavy cover of upper Sonoran brush, oak, etc. (Upper Son. birds' had also entered the area). These men did not realize that their land had been timbered and that timber was the appropriate crop to be raised there. The country is steep, and my uncle pointed out, is not adapted for grazing (is not a natural grassland) therefore, these people are injuring themselves & the country by trying to use it for grazing. they are literally "flying in the face of nature" as proof one can notice how poorly they are making out.