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23_82 Benson Lake to Sea- (cont. across top of 83) 8000ft Tuolumne Co. Camp-fire Talk to Sierra Club - I might as suggested talk to you about the forests of the Sierra Nevada. It is a great and important subject and it would be possible doubtless to tell you something about it that would be both interesting and instructive. But this would be mere information. It seems to me it would be better to tell you the means by which you may recognize for yourself the various kinds of forest trees and so observe and study them for yourself. I would rather be the means |
23_83 -vey Pass July 27,1911 9000 ft. of making you better mountaineers than lecturing to you indefinitely about the botany of the forest or the technicalities of forest zones, so that each of you could take away your own impressions of the prevailing types of forest trees. For every one should know the trees. For this reason. Every mountaineer who is a mountaineer is something of a woodsman, and every woodsman who is a real woodsman know the forest trees. He must know them. He may not know them as the botanist knows them. He may not know |
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