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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Butte to Missoula [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] Aug. 25 [[/underlined]] . Left Butte 8 AM & followed down long open meadow & ranch valley of Deer Lodge R. Seems to be all [[underlined]] Transition [[/underlined]] down to Garrison. There is no yellow pine, apparently, and the foothills & lower slopes of mts. are bare, grassy & smooth. The black strips of [[underlined]] Canadian zone [[/underlined]] timber cover the [[?inter]] slopes in uniform belts up to the bare, snow patched peaks west of Anaconda & Deer Lodge. The Deer Lodge Valley is mainly a stock region, with fine grazing uplands, good grass and no sagebrush and the principal crops are native and alfalfa hay and oats. Populus angustifolia and willow grow along the streams. I could see no trace of Sonoran species in the valley until at Garrison. Here on a steep hot slope [[juniperous?]] Rhus trilobata & Kunzia tridentata show merely a local trace. White aspens along the creek show a Canadian trace from the cold slope & cold water. At Garrison we met some scattered yellow pine which continues westward and
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merely could be nicely -@raferrante