christman 1959 Journal 174 Apr Yreka to Weed, Siskiyon & Calif. 519 Dairy - Holsteins; stone fences and few remnants of stone canals. Most of this area is that of cleared of juniper and irrigated some newly glass road, turned S. Red-shafted flicker. ["Four Corners"] thru windy road - juniper and sage - low relief but lava out crops - new clearing. 527 Panderosa p. seedlings and marganita Dips D.O.R., old. 529 panderosa forest with juniper 26 > 530 photos to W & SW - New Roll 12 Shasta has been in snow all am. But Black Butte is behind near hill Mpho Santa at roadside. 531.1 off of "Big Spring Road" onto #97 in a panderosa forest with cerascarpus Went by a reservoir - earthen dam Dwinnell Res. (2,800') some siberian spruce in this forest tho not much 536.4 on to #99 at Weed gased up The old fire area between Black Butte and the N. part of town of Mt. Shasta is a good example - dead pines sticking up above the gray brush - not very much marganita - cerascarpus - ? The pines will not reproduce themselves here. This is an easy pass from Shasta valley past the Butte & into the Sacraments drainage. But I wander about the original veg. was it all transition