impson 145 Bryce Natl. Park. June 3, 1931. Trip with Cope & Dixon to Poodunk Point, 20 miles south of the lodge at the southern end of the park. Elevations 8200-9000 ft. Day cloudy, windy & cool. Almost the entire trip lay in a long valley which looks much like N.T. Park. A good stream runs down the valley to the north. There has been an abundance of grass, but it has been overgrazed for years. He saw about 40 head of cattle there. The valley is rimmed with yellow pine, blue spruce short limber pine, white fir & aspen. The stream would be the best boundary for the park, but the Forest Service wanted a surveyed line which zig-zags by sectioning up through that timber & will always be a source of trouble from grazing. The park wanted a game preserve declared down to the little stream, but ran up against great opposition from sheepmen to sportmen. A cattle feeder whom we saw said he had never seen so little water in the stream before nor so many porcupines. He had