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[[underlined]] To Yellowstone [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 30 [[/underlined]] - Took 3:50 A.M. train for Yellowstone. Getting light at Warm River. Real light at Island Park. Reached Yellowstone 6 A.M. and after breakfast tramped about 6 miles west to the river. Shot Eutamias luteiventris & caught Thomomys fuscus.

From Warm River to Yellowstone it is all Lodge pole pine woods, very dense and clean generally.

Very gradual slopes on both sides of a flat summit and a great stretch of timbered plateau.

There are several saw mills along the way where the largest timber is being worked up. The tops are nicely piled and the woods have a clean, well kept look. Few of the trees are more than a foot in diameter and the large ones are cut without injuring the small. 

I saw also a few trees of Pinus flexilis, Abies concolor, Pseudotsuga & Picea pungens. There are aspen groves on same open side hills across & near the river. Willows & Betula glandulosa cover the marshes in big thickets. Still there are big open marshes along the river. 

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