26 Nov. Mother Lode Trip restricted to few small groups, small orchards & dairies. The horizon to the S. is a broad flat terrace to the north across the river valley it is rolling. Once this transect there have been no large groups of Eucalyptus & only a few in yards since the one group in the Lisimare valley. 965.8 down a hill into a bend of the river valley - permanent pastures & 3 turkey ranches. No stream here, plus a band of oak riparian down the middle of the bend (measured S.N.) with bright yellow cottonwoods & dark oaks. Over a hill & into another open shallow valley - this one is fruited all the way around by oaks - no brush; a closed wood- land: The foothills to the east are hazy. After large Q. lobatae - Herfords, 971.5** down into a river valley again, photo *5 to SE along S. edge of the river valley showing horizontal hedging in the hills. 3 p.m. 973.0 Knights Ferry turn off - the first Pinus saliniana on rolling hills above the roadway meierled. 974.1 Covered bridge & colar appears to be an old power station now in shambles, photos. On the way back *120 & stopped to photo an old gas station & house with surrounding scranda. 976 hobson *120. Then a mile & photos of basaltic fields & fences - no paucity of building material. - this area seems to be a still higher terrace - 977 Tuolumne Co. line into the foothills. Angus cattle. "tambstone" formations. Open oak woodland with few marshyges. No brush, though one distinct area of Cevocarpus. This area is a weak area of grassy parkland of mature trees to closed woodland of small even