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Hulbert
1949
Journal
190
Sept 11 Trinity Co, Calif.
replaced by Douglas Fir. About 2 miles N we
turned onto the Middle Fork Bearum Creek
road and began really dropping down. Sugar
Pine soon dropped out. Pegan Meadows was
an inviting looking locality to pass up.
Quite a well developed green grassy
meadow of about 1 acre extent. Dropping
on below that the forest began thinning
out on the S facing slope and Digger Pines
and a Chamise Chapparal began to be
visible in the valley below. Rounding
the end of a ridge onto a W slope we were
into a Douglas Fir forest without many
Pines but with Broad-leaved Maple,
Madrone, Black Oak and Alder. Springs
became common and several likely
looking Drycstrten spring were passed
sep, with small water flows and deeply moss
coved rocks. Still further down we
went along Baker Flat Creek, a stream with-
out water but otherwise looking very much
like the foothill streams flowing into the
Willamette Valley of western Oregon. It was
bordered by large Broad leaved Maple and Alders
with Douglas Fir up slope with an under-
story of Cornus nuttalli, Corylus rostrata
Vacciniscus discolor and with False Solomon