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Sierra Club Bulletin 



Of the sequoia seedlings that were left over, several were planted 

 along the edge of the woods on the south side of the Valley, from 

 Yosemite Village southwestward, while at the road forks near Galen 

 Clark's former residence, seven were set in a group. Further, by way 

 of experiment, some handfuls of sequoia seed were planted at various 

 places along the Pohono trail from Glacier Point westward. The 

 localities in each case were selected by Mr. Dudley and marked so 

 they may be easily recognized. A handful of seed also was taken by 

 the writer to the Little Yosemite Valley and there divided among 

 three spots that seemed particularly favorable. Each place was marked 

 by a few stakes and a large ring of cobble stones. There is no cer- 

 tainty, of course, that any of this seed will germinate, yet the experi- 

 ment seemed worth trying. 



That sequoias will grow in the Yosemite Valley has already been 

 abundantly demonstrated. The altitude of that locality, it is true,, is 

 some 2,000 feet lower than that of any of the neighboring big tree 

 groves; yet the sequoias that have been planted in the Valley in 

 previous years have done remarkably well. The three sequoias at the 

 Sentinel Hotel, the four at the corner of Galen Clark's grave, and 

 the solitary one on Pioneer Lamon's grave are growing up into fine, 

 sturdy trees. 



Another guarantee of the successful thriving of the sequoias is found 

 in the presence of magnificent sugar pines in various parts of the 

 Yosemite Valley. These trees, it is well known, require conditions 

 very similar to those needed by the sequoias. 



A singular fact, however, is connected with the sugar pine in the 

 Yosemite Valley. On all my rambles through the Valley floor I have 

 seen scarcely a single sugar pine seedling, nor even a young sugar 

 pine still in its teens ; yet the mature trees are in a flourishing con- 

 dition and shed a multitude of cones. The explanation I would seek 

 in the superabundance of squirrels in the Yosemite Valley — they do 

 nor permit a single sugar pine seed to get into the ground. On a 

 recent trip to Wawona, Major Littebrant and myself took occasion 

 to contrast this condition in the Valley with what we saw along the 

 road to Chinquapin. There, hundreds of sugar pine seedlings of var- 

 ious ages may be counted from a single point of view. Right then 

 and there did the Major resolve to have a number of these little 

 sugar pines transferred to the Yosemite Valley. 



My last walk in the Valley shows me that he has carried out the 

 plan. In various places along the road from Yosemite Village east 

 to the Le Conte Memorial Lodge, and thence back along the road to 

 the Stoneman bridge; also along the road west of the village, in the 

 vicinity of Galen Clark's former residence and as far as Camp Ahwah- 

 nee, one may now see tiny sugar pines, each protected, like the infant 

 sequoias, by three stakes driven into the ground. 



Finally, need was found for shade trees along the straight, bleak 

 stretches of road immediately west and north of the village. Here 



