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to the return cable -- which is endless and follows the track which the logs came down.
- Lowland Fir very smooth-barked and very white. Trunk a little rough at very bottom. May be recognized further by its flat sprays. Its bark is not unlike often the smooth mottled bark of Douglas Spruce but the flatness of the sprays tells at consid. distance. - Hypochaeris radicata -- Exceedingly abundant everywhere in the pasture lands. Dolly ate it and I noticed a roadside picking off the flower-heads.
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- Sitka Spruce -- bark variable -- noted as far as Caspar. Not many trees of it.
- Bishop Pine -- bark rough and at length deeply fissured -- very brittle under the axe. They ring the trees at Caspar to kill it out. The young growth is very uniform, dense and pure -- just the way a stand for lumber should be. However, since the tree is no good for lumber a picturesque element for the coast is ensured.
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