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good size. For miles [[strikethrough]] both [[/strikethrough]] along the stony & barren sides of the valley it is the dominant tree and often with a trunk 1 1/2 to 2 feet in diameter that would cut 2 good 16 foot logs not very limby. It take the place of [[underlined]] ponderosa [[/underlined]] in the rougher part of Transition zone. [[underlined]] Pseudotsuga [[/underlined]] also is abundant all up the valley and a few trees straggle up to 10500 feet on S.W. slopes.

Populus tremuloides is probably the most numerous tree in individuals & often forms beautiful groves of trees 8 inches to a foot in diameter while many trees could be selected 2 feet in diameter that would cut 3 good logs above a foot in diameter at top. Much of the original forest has been burnt out and great areas stand dead & bare with the bark dropping from the hard trunks of the mast like spruces & firs. In places fire has run up the steep slopes in narrow strips, leaving poles between the solid black green.