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[[underlined]] To Basswood & Red Willow Lakes [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] July 8 [[/underlined]] Drove about 10 miles south of Tolna to Basswood Lake and then 2 miles south of there to a timbered slope on west side of Red Willow Lake, then around by a great number of lakes and sloughs and tule marshes back to Stump Lake.

Basswood lake is a small, tule hardened body of good fresh water, deep & full of fish, in a basin surrounded by hills and on the west bordered by a fine body of timber, 40 acres or more of dense woods. Basswood is common, also hazle & grape & ampelopsis, but most of the timber is bur oak, Elm, ash, boxelder, thorn, plum, chokesberry, with spots of aspens & balsam poplar. Big springs come out along the sides of the gulches & the bottoms are wet & cold & full of interesting plants.

The woods west of Red Willow Lake are similar, with more extensive spring water bottoms full of aspens, balsam poplar & many northern plants as well as eastern. There is a little basswood, lots of hazle, ([[underlined]] C. americanus [[/underlined]]) grape & such low plants as Trilium, sarsaparilla, yellow moccasin flower, dewberry,