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Fig. 41 



Fig. 42 



Fig. 43 Fig. 44 



Figs. 41-44. — Showing the overbrow.sed area in the northwest slope of the Kaibab 

 plateau. 41, Cowania, the cliff rose, one of the principal winter foods of the 

 deer in an exclosure fenced about the time of maximum deer abundance. 42, 

 General view showing branches of pinyon and cedar denuded to the level of the 

 deers' heads, sage brush damaged, some dead at the right, and the favorite 

 deer winter browse, the cliff rose, disfigured and nearly dead in the center of 

 the foreground. The specimen in center of the foreground bears three dense 

 tufts of branches with leaves. 43, Denuded lower branches of the cedar, and 

 deer skeleton. 44, Normal cliff rose on the north slope of the plateau. (Photos 

 41 and 44 by Rasmussen and Kay; 42 and 43 by H. L. Andrews.) 



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