Field Notebook: Wyoming
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direction. They then gnaw off the branches which are stripped of the smaller branches are all peeled or the ground to the cords were they are left for future use and food. These animals apparently cut through bark and the inner living layer which they peel off without even scratching the inner wood. The streets are usually less than 5 feet long. They have numerous canals leading to the trunk which come out from the large water pro- duced by the dam. These they divert about injected or even less in width and probably less than one foot deep. The large tree trunks are left in the clearing adjoining forest when they have fallen. In some places trees are gnawed considerably and are thus destroyed. I saw another tree which had partially healed such a wound, since he 2 photos. We both camp and left by 8:30. Shortly I met Mr. Frank Pajor, (born at P.E. by Henry J Preston Creek). This German born in Germany came to Denver about 1908 and settled shortly after around north of Cheyenne with the French troops.