Thompson Grand Canyon Horse Thief Tank & Pasture Wash. March 18-19, 1934. The 18th Art Brown & I went to Horse Thief Tank in the Hermit Basin drainage. Seven deer ran out of the tank as we approached. Burro tracks are abundant all around the Hermit Basin vicinity. Brown intends to shoot them. Browns, particularly Gambel oak & Ceanothus, show all along this divide that at some time in the past they have been heavily over-browsed. Many dead stubs remain. The range is not a big browse producer. Dripping Spring canyon on the west side of Hermit was also visited. Deer tracks were common in the area. The 19th, Art & I drove to Pasture Wash. By the ranger station, perhaps 1/4 mile north of it, is the neat antelope paddock, constructed of woven wire & iron posts, enclosing 2-3 acres with water troughs. This paddock lies within the newly fenced horse pasture which is about 2 miles long by 3/4 mile wide. It is planned to introduce antelope kids in the stockade; to release them when they are mature. Antelopes are not far from here - in head of Cataract - so that it is felt that the wild adapt themselves to the Pasture Wash region.