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Tompson
South Canyon
Mar.2. Feb.30/1934
The range covered today is densely covered with juniper, pines, Cowania,
Pinusia, yucca glauca?, and in spots
sagelmutb & clupothamne. The canyon
are filled with gambel oaks. Cowania
and Pinushia are almost entirely recovered.
The region has been closed to domestic
stock for 8 years. We saw a few horses
however, +a few cow tracks. The rang
south of Saddle Canyon is the best
and it follows that it was hard hit
when deer were most abundant.
Deer tracks were numerous
everywhere. Our census of 60 deer for
the day must be a very small
percentage of the deer actually
present. Barque plants, however,
showed no sign of browsing. This
east side range, particularly the
South Canyon area is certainly not
stocked with deer to capacity. I
believe that the range is supporting
only a small percentage of the deer
which it is capable of supporting.