Thompson 144. Bryce Natl. Park June 2, 1931 Interview with Cope. Bryce is about 18 miles long, north & south, and 3 miles wide east & west. It runs along the eroding ridge of the Pink Cliffs. (By the very nature of the area, it is too small to be much of a game habitat). Grazing has been carried on here for years, as at Zion, and all the area shows the effects very badly. Sheep & cattle are in the Natl. Forest just west of the park, and some sheep will be grazed in the newly acquired park territory this year. There is a demand from the sheep men to kill out the Cougar in the park. The question is an open one still. Cope showed me an area near 1 mile north of Bryce Point where porcupine have girdled a few young yellow pines, and gnawed on many others. Cope was perturbed because this lies along the route of the new road to be built along the top of the cliffs down to the Mt Carmel highway. The destruction seems negligible to me.