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Title
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Field Notes, 1912, Part 2_061
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Alternative Title
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Field Notes, 1912, Part 2
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Raymond J. Pool
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Description
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Raymond J. Pool Field Notes
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Identifier
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120712
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Transcription
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61 44 Andropogon scoparius has come down from the hills and has become established on the flats. No Ceanothus was seen on the way. The gorge of the Snake at and below the falls is very precipitous and rocky. The river has cut through the hills and the Arikarce formation to a depth of about 400 ft. The sides of the hills on the upper slopes and the outercropping rocke covered by the typical Pine Ridge vegetation of Pinus ponderosa comprises the bulk of the first layer. Some of these trees are very large and stocky. Mixed with the pine Juniperus scopulorum is quite frequent also as very well developed trees some of them 40 ft. in height. The upper stretches of the canyon show such shrubs as Rhus trilobata , Ribes aureum , R. floridum in abundance. As one descends into the gorge the deciduous trees become commoner until in the bottom this belt is very well developed. The tree that are common are Populus sargentii , Ulmus americana , U. racemosa , Celtis occidentalis , and the two prunis P. americana and P. melanocarpa . The first three species occur as very large individuals while the last ones form the characteristic
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Rights
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