Field journal, v4159
Page 813
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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