Viewing page 293 of 372

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

D.R. Gardineer ranger at Parsons.

April 10, 1935
 [[strikethrough]] Descent [[/strikethrough]] Left Elkins 11 00 AM after conference with Supervisor Wood & the new asst. supervisor F.C. Hulett.  Ate lunch with Wayne Pritta leading sportsman of Parsons W. Va. & inspected the big forest nursery which has a capacity of 5,000,000 trees annually.  Mostly spruce but some pine, Black Cherry, sugar maple & dogwood growing.  
Left there at 2 30 PM & went onto Backbone Mt. Fine cover - great thickets of Similax & Rubus. lots of pine & black cherry, yellow birch, etc.  Fine game cover & food country.  Spruce planting will be spotted at best due to swamps-rock reefs. On to Oakland Md. at 6 00 PM.  
Met Mr. Bucklingham Dist Forester for Maryland & talked over his forests & wrote letters until 11 30 P.M.
April 11, 1935
Left Oakland [[overwritten 8 [[/overwritten]] 10.00 AM and drove to Swallow Falls State Camp on edge of a 6000 acre state forest.  Walked over forest in snow. Forest typically white oak with some white pine reproduction with a lot of Black cherry on north slopes & soft maple in south exposures.  Lots of Crataegus more wild crab than I've seen elsewhere some amelanchier, some witch hazel some greenbriar & some Rubus. Lots of acorns left on ground & bushels of wild crab going to waste.
Larger squirrel population than I've seen elsewhere.  Some rabbits, a fair sprinkling of grouse and some deer.  Soft new snow made conditions ideal for game study.  When I first entered