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38_138 Eureka to Trinidad --Klamath Weed (Hypericum perforatum) is so-called because it started in the Klamath country [?best guess]. It has no rootstocks but crown-sprouts, says Mr. Tracy, and is remarkable for its vigor and vitality and its power to withstand drought better than the native species it competes with. It is the greatest menace to the grazing interests that ever invaded California. Here in this region is the Australian Fire-weed (Erechtites ) [probably minima]. It forms brushy thickets 4 to 8 ft. high, is perennial and is exceedingly vigorous and aggressive. One sees its colonies all the way from Eureka to Crescent City in the hill country. |
38_139 Aug. 7, 1921. - Between Eureka and Trinidad we passed thru cut-ove Redwood country. I was amazed at the ghastly character of the country. High Redwood stumps and masts stood high, fire-burned - and above everything else I was impressed with the scantiness of the reproduction of redwood. Few of the stumps had any crown-sprouts, --because the country had been so devastated with fire so many times. Redwood has always been logged by the use of fire but nowadays the firing is much more intensive -- and the result is a vastly greater annihilation of the life in the area. |
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