The Creating of Game Refuges 



the mountains one finds a scattered growth^f pines 

 — the Coulter, ponderosa, Jeffrey's, the glorious 

 sugar pine, the Pinus contorta, and Pinus flexilis, 

 the single leaf or nut pine, and, in scattered tracts, 

 the queer little knob-cone pine. Red and white firs 

 are found, the incense cedar, the Douglas spruce, 

 the big cone spruce, and a number of deciduous 

 trees, mainly oaks of several varieties, with syca- 

 more along the lower creeks, and the alder tree, 

 strikingly like the alder bush of our eastern streams 

 and pastures, but of Gargantuan proportions, 

 grown out of all recognition. Scattered repre- 

 sentatives of other species are found — the maple, 

 cherry, dogwood, two varieties of sumac, the 

 yerba del pasmo (or bastard cedar), madrofios, 

 walnut, mesquite, mountain mahogany, cotton- 

 wood, willow, ash, many varieties of bushes, also 

 the yucca, mescal, cactus, etc. I have given but a 

 bald enumeration of these; the forming of an 

 acquaintance with so many new trees, shrubs, and 

 flowering herbs is of great interest, and increas- 

 ingly so from day to day, as one comes to live with 

 them in the different reserves. The pleasure to be 

 derived is cumulative^ — each acquisition of knowl- 

 edge adding to the satisfaction of that which 

 comes after — it is of a sort, however, to be 

 experienced in the presence of the thing Itself; 



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