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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