thompson 125. Grand Canyon Interview with Chief Ranger Brooks, May 7, 1931 A ranger has just reported within the last week, seeing a mountain- lion just below the canyon wall about 8 miles east of Grand Canyon Village. Brooks is anxious to get it before it gets the tame deer on this side. Brooks estimates 500 deer on the south rim at present. But there were never this many in the past owing to scarcity of water. Only the water tanks developed by cattlemen have made the present number possible. Brooks would like to try to develop more water holes along the south rim for deer, turkey, or antelope. He doesn't have the idea of leaving this arid country arid as it was. He thinks antelope could be planted over along the west & south portion of the park, where the pinons begin to break away into plains. But he would rather see about 140 sq. miles of this country under a joint agreement with the Forest Service to Park Service, so that the Havasupai Indians could use it for grazing. They have no