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June 9
Towota Point Trip
1st Stop. Sample Plot 3 miles west of VT on old Ryan Road. 3yrs plot enclosed. The little Spences Bendings of vigorous leaders, as high as sturdy part helped. young aspens 3 ft. high, suckers, vigshoud, 18 aspens in fist 46-40' approx. Grass looks about the same.
2nd Yellow Pine Forest. Ground almost bare; small yellow pines browned severely until some dead. Trees 3" diameter only 3 ft. high or bushy.
3rd Kitazy Jug Point overlooking Dowell Plateau, Big Thumb, Thumpler River, and Havasupair region. Cliff Rose, Service Berry, Juniferl Oak brownd clean as high as deer can reach. Sage Brush eaten back to half its former height. Junipers browned clean for high as deer can reach. Region looked like Point Sublime. 600-700 cattle graze here every winter. Brookes say they left about 1 month ago. Whether the browse is coming back very gradually is not exactly evident. Possible, it is.
4th Sample plot & open plot laid out m/1927. The enclosed plot shows good recovery of sage brush, Cliff rose, grass. Sage shrivel as high as in