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Motman
1959
228.
Journal
28 Nov. Motherlode Trip
215.0 parkland of deciduous oaks - cleared areas &
scrubbing hillsides of live oaks, etc. few pines
again - Angora Goats. (presumably chew on
sprouting brush!)
217 woodland; grass, many deciduous oaks.
P. saliniana - areas of ponderosa.
live oaks & small ponderosa plantations.
Cercocarpus is the predominant shrub
with a minor amount of Photinia).
218 shallow relief - rocky
grass - shrubs. Parkland - grass (with
young oaks & Cercocarpus invading).
partially mature parklands - in the
valley floor, while the side of the valley -
the slopes are a dry live-oak woodland
with P. saliniana.
fewer ponderosa)
NG-19
N7-1>
219.7 turn off to LoTus, 100 yards more -
photo stop - last of rail =
Here live oak - P. saliniana and
rather stunted (due to grazing ?)
Cercocarpus in the grassy area.
still ponderosa - even on the flats!
Many young trees in grassy areas,
especially on edges of the woodland -
some mature parkland.
220 Woodland on hill with Ponderosa,
some mavgamta & Cercocarpus in
patches, some parkland.
222.5 Woodland - ponderosa above
all along
it on hills. Here the swales -
battens of relief are grassy parklands
- same cutting in dense parklands.