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listman
1959
Journal
181
11 Apr. Redding, Shasta Co. south on Hwy # 99, Calif.
56,677 up a small hill into the oaks. This is
a very broad flat plateau with the
chamage cut into it and is of a gently
undulating topography to rolling. The
Sacramento River is to the E. and of sight.
To the SE a black cinder cone rises
above this flat relief.
620 Ailanthus ; Cottonwood Co.
oaks fringe the "nparian growth on the
dries margins.
691 Tekama Co. line
a broad flat valley with scattered oaks
of great size & scraws -
up hill again & oak cutting to the east
- they are leaving some of the oaks
684-85 rolling parkland - open, large
oaks and old erosion channels
689 only spotty oaks
into denser oaks again -
The highway parallels a dry shallow
gravelly wash.
No black rocks here - only alluvium
693 crossed a dry wrier bed from the west
with large evergreen oaks and
a few limeboyes - spikes, not blooms
as yet.
a few locust in flower
694.8 Red Bluff at 4:35 onto # 99E
for several miles to E. of the Sacramento
River are "sloughs"- dry courses with
huge oaks & a few sycamores.