beneath the stems 10 ft. high, juniperus occidentalis common, J. scopulorum occasional. Grass is mainly absent but in the sheep camp 2 miles west of Navajo Canyon we found grass roots of stultis beneath the top soil. Bunch grass was probably sparsely but generally scattered over the floor of the canyon. Artemisia tridentata & Chrysopele canescens remain fairly constant up the canyon. Old burned areas come back in a course grass resembling bear grass. The burning here is evidently a failure. Numerous willows thickest 7 are found along the meandering Mancos river - Pine canyon between Soda and Prater, is a few miles, perhaps 3 long gorge-like & picturesque. We found 4 groups of ruins within the first mile. A strip of bunch grassland a few hundred feet wide extends along both sides of the stream in the lower reaches of the talus slopes. Crocosmum montanum, Melanthera sp., Phryx trilobata, abundant, Purshia tridentata common. This canyon possesses excellent winter forage for deer & Mt. Sheep; at such times as shown on the mesa might drive the deer down in the canyons. It should be in the park.