J.G.Hall 1952 30 July 21 Sagehen Creek, 3mi. NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif. silty and various organisms were crawling about. Spent most of mom- ing ageing sprouts on cut aspen stumps proceeding E along N side of stream. Took "random" samples, looking especially for old, weathered stumps. Probably the oldest cuts were of stumps now in or near the water's edge. These don't sprout, how- ever, and even those on damp groun- between water & rockslide proper don't sprout as well as do those on the rockslide. So some of the stumps now surrounded by water probably were cut previous to the wint- ero f 1947-8 which is the time of earliest cutting indicated by the 43 stumps I examined. Used noding for dating. No. stumps 1st growing season 8 1948 17 1949 3 1950 5 1951 10 1952 43 Although there is some evidence of recent cutting of large aspen far