June 12, 1931 Powell Plateau. The delegation drove to Powell Saddle, where horses were procured & we rode over most of the plateau. The Saddle is about 7,000 ft. deep. The slopes are a mass of gamble oak, service berry, manzanita, yarrow and clifrose. All shrubs in the Saddle show some browsing, but not to a serious extent. Powell Plateau has a large yellow pine forest over most of it. But all of the south & west sides are juniper, cliffrose, gamble oak, service berry, cliffrose & sage, with a mixture of grass. Here is the usual "high water" line as severe as anywhere else. Some cattle & wild horses are on the plateau, as evidenced by tracks, and deer tracks were numerous. The deer must go without water here. E.P. Hall says he is certain that bucks and barren does go 4 weeks without water. Three springs are in the canyon just south of Powell Saddle but too far from Powell Plateau to be watering places for deer there. Where the cattle drink, I do not know except at the springs.