Christensen 1959 Journal 143 8 April Sacramento Valley Trip up *99W left Berkeley with a full tank after breakfast with Nellie. Hwy 40 to Davis turn off to Woodland. Everything is good and green. All the way the roadside veg. is oats, tall and lush, with a short blue Lupinus, mustard and baby poppy, in few areas to they laps over into fields - often on a slope the cultivation line separates the weeds from the grain. At Woodland Yolo Co. at 1:45 = this town is an oak town like most Sacramento although the former does not have the density & heights of the oaks. Hwy *99W, almost ½ way to Zamora, the use of road had large widely spaced oaks - no grass but widely spotted. Neady to Yolo (Zamora) they disappeared & the cars and the cultivated fields prevailed. North of Zamora (which is a small group of old wooden hickling & trees) there was a huge plantation of Eucalyptus - another was about Dunnigan. These trees are often seen in towns and at ranch houses but oaks prevail. at the county line - Colusa & Yolo on Hwy 99 is an extensive riparian growth along a river bed. Extensive oaks & what appears to be orchards to west. Below here there are few orchards - the an exception West of Woodland the low dry wine coast range hills appear - line of trees and extend N and approach road slightly & Meek near most of Cache Creek where the Chapel Hill nursery midest from road. 4 mi. 5. of Arbuckle the land pattern suddenly changes from open grain - for pasture land