them working busily in the light of the noonday 

 sun. 



Most of the aspens were cut off between 

 thirteen and fifteen inches above the ground. 

 A few stumps were less than five inches high, 

 while a number were four feet high. These high 

 cuttings were probably made from reclining 

 trunks of lodged aspens which were afterward 

 removed. The average diameter of the aspens 

 cut was four and one half inches at the top 

 of the stump. Numerous seedlings of an inch 

 diameter were cut, and the largest tree felled 

 for this harvest measured fourteen inches across 

 the stump. This had been laid low only a few 

 hours before I found it, and a bushel of white 

 chips and cuttings encircled the lifeless stump 

 like a wreath. In falling, the top had become 

 entangled in an alder thicket and lodged six 

 feet from the ground. It remained in this posi- 

 tion for several days and was apparently aban- 

 doned; but the last time I went to see it the 

 alders which upheld it were being cut away. 

 Although the alders were thick upon the ground, 

 only those which had upheld the aspen had 



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