Field notes: Eastern United States return trip through Canada and Northwest United States, San Diego trip,1916, and second Eastern United States trip "via northwest", v4546
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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.