In the Sierra 



impressive old monument of a tree that in 

 its prime may have been the monarch of 

 the grove ; seedlings and saplings growing 

 up here and there, thrifty and hopeful, giving 

 no hint of the dying out of the species. Not 

 any unfavorable change of climate, but only 

 fire threatens the existence of these noblest 

 of God's trees. Sorry I was not able to get a 

 count of the old monument's annual rings. 



Camp this evening at Hazel Green, on 

 the broad back of the dividing ridge near 

 our old camp-ground when we were on 

 the way up the mountains in the spring. 

 This ridge has the finest sugar pine groves 

 and finest manzanita and ceanothus thick- 

 ets I have yet found on all this wonderful 

 summer journey. 



September i 8. -- Made a long descent on 

 the south side of the divide to Brown's 

 Flat, the grand forests now left above us, 

 though the sugar pine still flourishes fairly 

 well, and with the yellow pine, libocedrus, 

 and Douglas spruce, makes forests that would 



