christman 1959 238. Journal 29 Nov. Motherlode Trip was on Marsh Creek Road - 409.3 crosses Walnut Blvd. Approaching low rolling hills and farmland. Diable is due west down the lane of English walnut land road. 410 Creek & willows, cottonwoods, maples. The old Marsh residence A mature parkland of Quercus lobata afew spots of board fences). Flats here are recently plowed (some old burnt out oak trunks). All this is a parkland - some hills with few or no oaks. afew old orchards- past-harled wire fence) Sycamores in the dry, espanian areas. 414. board fence canals. Road side Sycamores. More pepper & tamarass trees. Eucalyptus grapes. Lots of Nicotiana at the side of the road. Richards & law contours. Oaks are deciduous (and in dull reds, yellows & oranges) and live. Few huckeyes. No shrubs on hills here - spat (N facing slope) of roadside pension autos. Many cottonwoods along creeks. 417 spots & good areas of Woodland - One hillside with hundreds of young oaks & some brush. 419 Marsh Creek Lodge denser north facing slope woodland live oaks in draws - especially huckeyes more prominent on NE facing slopes. 420 afew P. salviniana, shrub on N slope (S. facing) Photinia, Bassalis, many roadside shrubs. many Sycamores.