Thompson 442. Pasture Wash continued. March 19, 1934 Range within the parks appears to be good antelope range – sagebrush flats in comparatively open juniper-piñon country with good grama grass stands. The most open country however lies in the forest just south of the parks. It seems a gamble to me whether antelope will stay within the parks unless hopefully domesticated. However, I think the experiment worth trying – it may work. A new water hole has been constructed about a mile north of Pasture Wash ranger station. Up at Bass’s cisterns (new galvanized iron troughs have been placed). The cisterns are blasted out of solid limestone & are too vertically sided to be used other than by jumping. It is planned to pump water periodically into the troughs. Such course strikes me as futile. Cowania, Ephedra, Artemisia, juniper & piñon are in normal growth about Bass cisterns. They show no browsing. All ages & sizes of Cowania repro. are to be found, but without exception, the young plants were deep browsed, there showing why