THOMPSON Zion National Parks May 28, 1931 Trip with Woodbury Piger & Russell out the west rim trail by Angel's Landing across the head of Wildcat Canyon & down to Lee's Ranch. All of the high country we traversed within the parks was good deer country — if there is enough water. Mt. Mohogany, two kinds of squaw berry, huckleberry (a near relative of cliff rose), margarita, choke cherry, sagebrush, and many other shrubs & grasses were mixed with pincion, juniper & yellow pine. Many deer tracks were seen all day. Jack Hopkins who lives in Cedar city had about 540 acres of private land in the park up near the northwest corner on which he grazes so sheep. The sheep have eaten off the forage very badly and the soft soil down in [illegible] Valley is eroding away in a deep gulch. This erosion is especially character- istic outside the parks. The area north of the park, clear to Cedar Breaks has been grazed for 50 years and is responsible for the floods & erosion down in Zion canyon all down the Virgin River. The water runs off the flood