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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] steep, bare, hot slopes but no other signs of Upper Sonoran zone plants. Along the river banks grow Populus trichocarpa, Alnus [[space]], Salix, and Fraxinus. Thomomys hills are common in the Umpqua Valley but gophers could not live in the timbered mountains along Bow Circle canyon. Crows & blackbirds are common. To Oakland and Drain the country is similar but high, timber covered hills begin at Drain, tho too dark to see what the timber is. In crossing the ridge north of Drain I could not recognize the timber owing to darkness & rain. Reached Portland at 11 P.M. & went to Oregon Hotel. [[underline]] Nov. 20 [[/underline]]. Got a lot of accumulated mail and wrote letters. Left at 11:45 P.M. on N.P.