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43 Martinez, Sep. 12, 1895 My dear Mr Johnson, I have just got home from a six weeks ramble in the Yosemit Yosemite
National Park. For three years the soldiers have kept the sheepmen sheep out of the park I looked sharply at the ground to
learn the value of the military influence on the small great flora On the sloping portions of the forest floor when the soil
was loose friable the vegetation has not yet recovered from the illegible bblin destructive action of the sheep feet teeth,
but where a tough sod on meadows was spread the grasses blue gentians erigerous? are again blooming in all their wild glory.
The sheepmen are more than matched by the few troopers in this magnificent park the wilderness rejoices in fresh verdure bl
oom? only the Yosemite itself in the middle of the grand park is downtrodden, frowsy, like an abandoned backwoods pasture
No part of the Merced Tuolumne wilderness is so dusty, downtrodden, abandoned pathetic as Bancroft Library