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Some of the cold slopes are still heavily forested, as they seem to have been too damp to burn, well down into the Hondo Canyon, but 9/10 of the country has been burned over & has little trace of original forest. Throughout the Canadian zone aspens have come up in dense masses that now cover the [[strikethrough]] upper [[/strikethrough]] middle slopes of the mountains with a yellow robe. In places they form groves of smooth, straight, palm like trunks so dense you can see but a little way into them, & the trees so tall and slender with only a bunch of branches at the top that they look like reeds. Trees 6 inches through at the bottom are often 60 or 75 feet high & seem to taper only enough to allow for perspective. A road cut through these groves is wonderfully beautiful, & especially so now with the yellow sunshine of their leaves overhead. Around the mine the aspens have been cut for wood, as they are said to make the best of charcoal. Their yield per acre must be enormous.
From a distance the mts. are now marked by colored zones.