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Berkeley, Oct. 8, 1936.
H.H. Hewitt,
866 Jefferson Court,
San Mateo.
This man "got through the lines" by a ruse and proceeded to talk me to death: Namely, "the U.S. Forest Service is utterly wrong in its forest policy; so is the California State Bureau of Forestry. Our forests are being burnt up because of transipration" and he can take any one out and prove it!! The man is unbalanced and ignorant, but an intense crusader!
--Came to call Mrs. Edith Murphey of Covelo who has been collecting in the terrae incognitae north of Round Valley and far into Trinity Co. She says the colonies of Pinus
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Berkeley, Oct., 1936.
tuberculata are regarded by the Round Valley Indians as storage for famine years and are never used in ordinary years. They use Pinus sabiniana regularly but not Pinus tuberculata until a famine comes. --Oct. 26, 1936.
Mrs. Murphey (see above) says that South Fork Mountain is owned in large part by Miss Helen Anderson, an aunt of Helen Wills.
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