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Tompson
433.
Table Rock to Willow Canyon to Slide
Mar. 7, 1934.
The points covered today have been hit
as hard as anything on the winter range.
Sagewash & Coyote are only stubs. There is
new growth put out every year, but
it is eaten almost to the lobe each year.
It did not look to me as though it were
recovering fast enough to save a large
percentage of the plants from dying.
Deer or cattle tracks were everywhere.
Forbesia, Ephedra, Fallugia & Cowania
are all heavily browsed. Sagewash is
recovering more than the others.
The day was warm with a cold wind.
Deer are fairly well scattered, but still
concentrated on the points with a higher
reach on the upper end of the range.
Slide to Horse Spring Canyon
Mar. 8, 1934
Down the north side of Slide Canyon
the range was the same as yesterday.
Slide Spring is a good trickle, cascading
over 200 ft. down to the bottom of the
canyon. Its water is slightly gyp flavored.
Perhaps a 2" pipe could carry it. Horse Spring
is barely more than a stop.
Five deer were seen down in the
bottom of Slide Canyon about half a mile
above the spring. These were thin desert