Thompson Sol Duc Hot Springs to Olympus G. S. April 30, 1934. trail. Huckleberry is the most prevalent browse plant, with some Salmon- berry. There was no indication of anything but slight browsing. Snow lay in drifts & later in solid mass perhaps many feet deep from Sol Duc Park up through the 14 lake basin to the divide. On the Hole River side of the divide there was no snow. Aploodontia burrows were numerous as soon as we started down and continued almost to the Hole River. There was marked aploodontia utilization of huckleberry over the upper half of the g slope. In many places it amounted to most of the foliage of the plants. Their cutting were high indicating that most of it was done in snow of several feet depth. Twig cut by aploodontia are sliced off diagonally, clean as when a beast cuts them. All through the aploodontia sector was an abundance of elk and deer sign, much of it this winter's. It seemed to me that over-browsing was in its early stages. The aploodontia utilization was to such an extent as to take