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California may be transformed into a profitable resource. When 

 such animals are found to be worth money their extermination 

 is not such a hopeless problem. 



Thus our boys and girls go into the mountains for nature-play. 

 They enjoy climbing even with a week-end pack of blankets and 

 provisions on their backs. On one trip we covered twenty-four 

 miles in two days. As the height increases the panorama spreads 

 to wider distances until, at the last, the blue Pacific bounds the 



Fig. 4. Ready for the return. 



view. Just at this winter season we leave oranges ripening in 

 the orchards on the mesa and in a few hours are able to build 

 snow-men and forts and pelt one another with snowballs on the 

 mountain crests. We enjoy the variety and beauty of the scenery. 

 Many animals and plants are collected and brought back for 

 some useful manufacture in the nature room or for exhibition in 

 the school museum. Among the rocks and trees the wits are 

 sharpened as the hands perform the simple processes of forest 

 life. We watch the plume-tailed gray squirrel on the big-coned 

 pine while the noisy red-shafted flicker volplanes from tree to 

 tree. From the tracks on the trail we learn what fellow animals 

 have preceded us and often just what they were doing: whether 



