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in late years are slowly coming back to grass. The weeds may 

 still predominate, but if there was enough grass to make its for- 

 age value more than that of the weeds, the area was .shown as 

 type 1. with the predominant grass as the sub-type. The few 

 Aspen areas supporting a growth of weeds were included in this 

 general type. 



4. Sagebrush. This type, which includes all lands where 

 sagebrush is the predominant forage, occurs in no appreciable 

 areas on the Coconino National Forest. 



5. Brozvse. All areas, outside of timber and woodland 

 where browse (woody perennials) was the predominant forage, 

 were shown under this type. These areas occur on the sides of 

 canyons and on steep south slopes above medium elevations as 

 well as over large areas of ridges and slopes at lower elevations. 



6. Timber range, supporting a stand of grasses, weeds and 

 browse. This is the principal type occurring on the forest with 

 Yellow Pine as the predominant timber species though there are 

 some small areas of the Transition, Douglas Fir, and Alpine 

 timber types above the Yellow Pine. The forage that this type 

 supports varies from pure stands of Bunch Grass and Pine Grass 

 at higher elevations or Black Sporobolus and Blue Grama a little 

 lower, with all variations of subtypes to a mixture of grasses, 

 weeds and browse. 



7. Waste range. There are very few waste range areas 

 on the forest, the chief ones being in Manzanita brush and on 

 the inaccessible sides of canyons. In case it was in dense brush 

 the species predominating was represented as a subtype by the 

 initial letter of its name. 



8. Barren Land. All areas where naturally there is no 

 vegetation, such as slide rock or lava beds, were shown as barren 

 land. 



9. Woodland, supporting a stand of grasses, weeds and 

 browse. Woodland of Juniper, Pinon and Arizona Cypress occur 

 at lower elevations on the forest. The forage supported by this 

 type varies greatly, ranging from a .well stocked Blue Grama 

 stand to one made up almost entirely * of worthless weeds or of 

 browse. Often this area, especially the dense thickets of Arizona 

 Cypress, might have been mapped as waste range because of the 

 very sparse stand of forage plants. 



The field notes, which were to constitute the descriptive re- 

 port, were written on loose sheets, Form 874-13, in Forest Ser- 



