ROCHET, JOHN 1989 3. Journal Zuni Indian Reservation, McKinley Co., New Mexico July 29 This woodland is 40' tall and despite continuous crop, has a (cut) varied understory, mostly of Teninsak. Where the wash enters the river this woodland extends E & W along the N. bank of the Zuni River, mostly as Russian olives, but young cottonwoods are numerous and will over-top the exotic vegetation in a few years, absent human intervention. On the S. bank of the Zuni River, opposite Sand Ferry Road, is a seep through the forest. A line of 12 large Cottonwoods, the largest below the dam here, grows on the slope from the base of the rimrock to the river's edge. Another four large Cottonwoods grow in an E.-going line along the trail which begins in the Cottonwoods at the end of a dirt road coming from the west. Coyote willows grow densely around the base of the trees and extends for 30 yards both E & W. Over its sepitely, beneath the Cottonwoods, grow several large deciduous shrubs, whose identity I do not know. Their dense, stiff branches provide cover for old sets of birds I remember seeking shelter. Just to the west of this line of Cottonwood & associated plant life are several agricultural plots on the S. bank and the E. end of a large Tippet/Striping marsh on the N. bank, extending about 250 yards WSW. In whole area below the dam is periodically radically altered by human activity, usually in the form of cutting coyote willows, bull-dozing sandy roads adjacent to the agricultural sites N. of the Zuni River, rarely by farming. A large fire 2 years ago destroyed most of the fruit-bearing vegetation on the south slope of the canyon. This has been replaced mostly by non-wojas Saltbush & big sagebrush. Chute Division Reservoir is in the NE portion of the reservation, below Naches Canyon. The earthen dam partially fills a gap in the Naches Monocline, known locally as "the hogback." This geologic formation