1959 233 Journal 29 Nov Mother Lode Trip 297.9 on to Hwy #16 going east. 307 undulating grassland with woodpost-wire fences. 309 climb a hill into a parkland 310 Slaughterhouse an area of hops and orchards. An open shallow river valley. 311 up grassy hills 315 into a shallow river valley of Parkland - intersected with maps. Field stones Cosumnes River hillocks of mining tailings. 317 almost a closed parkland; cottonwoods in a dry stream bed -- more cut up & eroded hills 318 Michigan Bar parkland - P.sabiniana 320 Clearing of parkland & exteriors. Yerba Santa invading the grassy areas) 320.5 Amador Co. line more live oaks, clearing - sprouting stumps and yerba santa. all the woodland here is of live oaks. 321 brush of small oaks, manzanita, ceocarpus clumps -- a mixture -- an woodland-parkland. It appears that the trend is to fill in the parklands. Sharp edges of the brush fields. Chamise thickets N7 ID > 324.0 photo stop #9 to the South, mainly young oaks into a P.sabiniana parkland. Woodlond 50 yards east on a hill. 324+ broad grassy areas dominated by parklands and woodlands. 326 - Cercocarpus, manzanita, young oaks P.sabiniana and ponderosas -- 11 > photo: on edge of grassy area)