Professional Paper - United States Geological Survey, Issue 8The Survey, 1902 - Geology |
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altitude American River B. M. per acre badly burned brush growth Ceanothus cent chaparral chiefly consists culled dense diameter difficult of access Digger pine district Donner Pass east eastern portion elevations extensive Feather River Feather River Basin feet B. M. feet in height Fork of American Fork of Feather Fork of Yuba glades Hill incense cedar Lexington Hill Little Grass Valley lodgepole pine logged lumber main canyon main range Middle Fork miles mill timber Mohawk Valley North Fork northern slopes pasture Patton hemlock Peak pine and red placer red and white red fir reforestation region restocking ridges scattered yellow pine Shasta and white Shasta fir Shasta-fir forest Shasta-fir type sheep Sierra Valley small quantities soil South Fork species stream sugar pine summits tracts trees type of forest undergrowth western white fir white pine woodland yellow and sugar yellow-pine forest yellow-pine type young growth Yuba Basin Yuba River
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Page 185 - Gannett. 1902. 38 pp., 1 pi. 6. Forest conditions in the Cascade Range, Washington, between the Washington and Mount Rainier forest reserves, by FG Plummer.
Page 185 - Leiberg. 1902. 194 pp., 12 pis. Besides the foregoing, three volumes on forestry have been published, as Part V of the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first annual reports, each consisting of several papers. / Correspondence should be addressed to — THE DIRECTOR, UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, WASHINGTON, DC DECEMBER, 1902.
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Page 185 - Plummer. 1902. 42 pp., 11 pis. 7. Forest conditions in the Olympic Forest Reserve, Washington, from notes by Arthur Dodwell and TF Rixon. 1902.
Page 13 - Shasta fir 24 XI. Map of northern Sierra Nevada, showing range of sugar pine 26 XII. Map of northern Sierra Nevada, showing range of Digger pine and western juniper 28 11 LETTER 0F TRANSMITTAL.
Page 37 - ... south of Clinton, and some maple and other soft woods in the low grounds. It is noticeable that all the principal slopes about this valley, and generally on the upper Pequannock water-shed, are well timbered. The valley has a considerable number of scattered trees over its cultivated portion, mostly from 8 to 12 inches in diameter and 40 to 50 feet high. The large trees noted were a black walnut, three-quarters of a mile west of Milton, 30 inches by 50 feet ; a red oak, one-quarter of a mile...
Page 111 - ... which have been worked since the early days of gold discoveries in California. Since the introduction of hydraulic methods the auriferous gravel beds west of a line drawn north and south through Maybert to a junction with Middle Fork of Yuba have been torn up in all directions by the hydraulic giants. Vast masses of debris have resulted. Some of this still lies on the flats and slopes in irregular heaps of coarse gravel, small rocks, or bowlders. Much stands up in huge bluffs 50 to 150 feet in...
Page 19 - ... feet. In past times, before logging operations commenced, it may have been the dominant species as regards the number of trees, but owing to the vast amount of cutting it is so no longer. It has been more exhaustively logged than any other species in the type except the sugar pine, and restocking has not kept pace with the cutting. It is still the dominant species in amount of mill timber. The following table exhibits the approximate composition of the coniferous portion of the type as regards...
Page 187 - PP 7. Forest conditions in the Olympic Forest Reserve, "Washington, from notes by Arthur Dodwell and Theodore V.
Page 18 - Canyon it approaches within 5 or (> miles of the eastern termination of the Digger pine. As the western juniper is a typical tree of the arid regions ea»st of the Sierra, and the Digger pine of the semiarid country west of the range, it follows that along the South Fork of Yuba Canyon the two areas practically unite across this portion of California. YEW. The yew is a species limited in its range to the central district and to some of the wet canyons of the eastern district, along the main range...