377. find just what elk population this area bears support. Dasiphora fruticosa (Bush Cinquefoil) and Ribes cereum taken universally, & about evenly, but stunting is not serious. About 1 mile further north. Large aspen groups east of the cut-off are severely barkless. Small clumps have died from barkless. Peepers Hope badly mutilated. Willows eaten to stubs & many dead. Grasses not abundant, Sedges abundant. Dasiphora (Cinquefoil) & Ribes abundant & only moderately browsed. Purshia but hard, & is scarce, except on hill tops. From Estes to Phantom Ranch July 14, 1933. Mr Saughlin reports seeing 23 elk [illegible] in" upon Trail Ridge last March. One skeleton remains. What became of the others is not known. 7 ft. of snow fell & no wind came to blow it off. HE thinks there may be around 200 elk in winter around Moraine Beaver & Horseshoe Parkes. It is his opinion that deer & not elk eat browse the Purshia & Sage Brush. Deer remain on the exposed rocky hillsides whereas the elk feed in the meadows. High