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April 8 [[insert]] 1935 [[/insert]] cont. in a half ton chev. pick up truck. We planned to go to Bichell Knob to see  some of spruce release worth but snow & rain have made road impassible.  We went to Glady Fork over some 6 miles of the worst mud I've seen in years.  We arrived there about 10 00 AM.  after being stuck a couple of times.  Started, out from Glady Fork Spike Camp and first traveled through a magnificent thicket of [[underline]] Rhododendron maximus [[/underline]]some ten or twelve feet high & we emerged in an open hillside with exposure covered with good stand of beech. Yellow birch & black cherry which was all being conserved.  Some dog wood, some magnificent amelauelien & some crataegas present also good tangles of Smilax. Slightly too open but magnificent game food conditions. Thummig [[?]] rather scant.  a few broken & gnarled old beeches & tulip trees being the main things removed.
   On south slope--soft maple & a magnolia plentiful-also much more Sqilax & crailagas. along creeks a lot of Similax, Rubus, Sambuces & Phytolacca. Saw a number of grouse tracks & one grouse flushed. Best game food & cover conditions I've seen yet & feel no harm done by stand Improvement work. Doubt its value somewhat.
  Saw few birds-snowing much of time.  Left camp after noon and returned to Elkins secured our car and went to Marlington 66 mi away arriving at 5 15 PM
In evening met Ranger, WA Medesy and Mr. Muttar & Dan Griffen of the