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391.B
Yellowstone Park
Aug. 11 1933.
From 1:00 to 4:00 PM, LaNake Wright & I looked over the new horse pasture on J Sapine Creek. The pasture is located about 3-4 miles (estimated) distance south of the Tower Falls road. It appears to be on the upper edge of the elk winter range. Grapes & weeds are abundant. Some aspen groves and lodgepole pine surround the area. But most of the pasture is meadowland. Aspen refors has been heavily browsed and almost killed out. Old aspens have been severely vandalized. Many of the groves are falling to pieces.
The pasture is to care for about 30 horses during the summer in order to have them readily available in case of fire. This is not important so far as actual forage consumption goes, but it is unfortunate in that it makes it almost impossible to further object to the company holding their 200-300 horses in the same vicinity.