Field notes, v1390
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28 6 August 1980 Titanium Canyon Hiked down to Lostman Spring (#199) and Fern Springs to pick up cameras. #200 Fern spring is a pool approx. 2 ft x 3 ft x 8 inches deep under a rock overhang on the N side of a small canyon. Around the pool is dense growth of vegetation, grasses, rushes, epipactis and a small "maiden hair" fern Adiantum capillus - veneris. Sleep trails led up to the pool - evidently sleep drink here with some regularity. About 50 to 100 feet up canyon from this pool there are a series of two small rock pools, the largest approximately 2 feet by 1.5 feet, filled by a slow trickle that comes from a seep. These, too, seem to be used by Bighorn. I put two cameras to watch over these water sources. One (camera number 6) watching the Fern spring (proper) pool, the other watching the rock pools (camera #5). Put these cameras in on 30 July, picked them up today. #199 Lostman Spring [illegible] is a dense patch of vegetation, including cottonwood trees, on the E side of Titanium Canyon. Above it are steep rocky canyon walls, while immediately around it are rather rugged talus slopes, rocks about 6" to 1 ft across. Large animal trails penetrate the thicket. Grass walked down indicates large animals lie down in the cool shade. Under a fallen log is a small puddle