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meadow above Kern Lake, which is 12 miles over rough trail and could not make it before dark so camped at Trout Meadows for the night.  The route today has been over ridges covered mostly with Pinus jefferyi.  Pinus murrayana grew in meadows and damp places down nearly as low as trout meadows.  Abies concolor gave out and Libocedrus de[[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]]currens [[decurrens]]. Pinus ponderosa began & is mixed through P. jefferyi, and there are all the grades between.  
At Little Kern at 8 A.M. the Aneroid read 7050, at Trout Meadow 2 P.M. 6100.  Pinus lambertiana began.  Except along streams the country is dry & barren under the trees.  Sheep have eaten everything clean and left a bare dusty surface.  They have killed out many shrubs, some Arctostophylos pungens and Ceanothus still survive, but in places these have been killed.  Wet meadows along streams still have grass and on some it it is good feed.
The weather is warm here.  Most plants seem to range higher, 2 species of Scaloporus are abundant and I killed a Rattle snake & a Eutamia at Trout Meadows.
Pinus jefferyi seems to do well on the bare dry ridges and probably crowds out some other trees.  Abies concolor evidently does not come down because to dry for it.  Libocedrus may go lower.

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