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Barff, Oct. 15
but long and winding in a willow
grum swale; lots of cut aspen
stumps, and some trees up to 8 inches
diameter, partly cut; a dragway on
upper side of road to aspen
tracts 100 to 200 yards ups the
lower mountain slope, where
were freshly cut stumps. Then
the beaver regularly at night cross
the highway back and forth. The driver
said there is little fast driving, and
he knew of no beaver being hit by
an auto, tho elk are killed
on the railroad sometimes.
At the enclosed "buffalo park" we
saw some 2 & head of allegedly
pure bred buffalo (a very small calf
as well as third-grown ones); 33 ELK;
4 mountain goats, and 4 Rocky
Mountain Sheep -- all those allegedly
trapped (except buffalo) in the
near vicinity. We saw a pole-
work trap for sheep, 6 or 8 miles
ups the road at the base of
a precipitous mountain, mostly of
rock surface. There is
evidence of excessive browsing
within fences, but not outside.