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Austrian
1959
Journal
226
28 Nov.
Mother Lode Trip
The road continues to Uncle Tom's Cabin & Wentworth
Springs - same as same road.
18 > 184.8 photo stop a view to the west over the
pandurasa forest.
The forest is in all state of recovery
from everything it appears !
There are few mature trees.
194.6 Georgetown now on correct turn
off, to Placerville!
More extensive areas of broom.
There is more Q. Kelagii here.
197.0 open grassland - meadows like in
shallow valley-
many lamhardi populus
hayrads.
brush fields and pandurasa forest
extensive clearing going on .
199.0 red soil & pines-grass!
201.2 extensive marganta patches, also
cercacpus, spotty pandurasa and
many Q. Kelagii - some are huge and
others in grass.
evidence of a former fire and
once a pine forest.
203.0 Kelsey 1920'
204 Starting down a steep grade - the
step south facing slope here is covered
with pure stands of chanwise and
others the not as extensive - marganta.
Photinia is mixed into it in a minor way.