being' infused into the veins of the Forest Service, ne must 

 study, not only the .Describee, courcos tut also such books 

 as \re can, ospociclly along these lines of uork which may 

 interest us. 



The Ncrth Grove of 3i - Trees 



.* 

 Prank A. Wilson 



The North Grove is located fourteen miles from 

 Porosthill, Placer County, California, as the crow flies in 

 the direction of the rising sun. Here in a little oove 

 on the headwaters of iiosquit* Creek stends this little ^rovo. 

 It is no.t remcrkablo for its size or nunber of troes, but its 

 location has mcde it famous. It might '"ell have been called 

 the "Hermit Jrove", because it -.ould ta".:e several days hard 

 riding to reach its nee rest neighbor. 



Here it has stood for over twenty centuries on 

 the 3i.j 0.1: Divide, guarded by the deep gorges of the Iljrih 

 end I^ivdle ?orks of the A_aoricrn River. On all sites it IB 

 surrounded by a dense 'mirei? stand of Douglas ant ./hite ?ir, 

 Y^llotf end 2u;;ar -ine, an<? Incense C-..-car. Here on a roll- 

 in- plrtcau can bo seen the original forect as it hae stood 

 for.' centuries. i-ven the hr.r<?y che":e nc!:ers havo ^csso'* on 

 to nore accoLtible timber mi 8 , left thic unscarred. 



Thoro are four srjell trees, ranging from twenty 

 to forty-five inches, and two larje ones, measuring one hun- 

 dred oirht anc' one hundred tnerty inches in dicrnctor, stand- 

 ir. -. Thoro r.re tro lcr:e trees down, one measuring ton and 

 the other eighteen foot in diameter c.t the base. Tht larg- 

 est standing tree has attcinod a height ef trt hunfrec ei-'ity 

 feet end is ton foet in d if. meter above the bulge. On one 

 side there ie tn tncient burn nhere visitors have cut their 

 initials and dates, ^hile here o.nd there a letter out with a 

 scribe proclaims the feet thtt surveyor has seen them, al- 

 though they still stand upon unsurvoyed jround. 



The elevation here is a little over 0,100 feet 



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