Plants Used by Sheep on Mountain Range. 



shaped and vary from one to five feet in height. In August, 1911, they 

 were full of luscious acid berries, sometimes dark red but usually blue- 

 black in color, and the young twigs were covered with large tender 

 leaves. In the dense woods, these leaves remained more or less moist 

 and succulent all day long. 



In addition to the huckleberry, this region furnished an abundance 

 of shrubby growth of various other species which the sheep consumed 

 with relish. The following grazing notes were here taken: 



PLANTS OF THE WHITE PINE FORESTS WHICH THE SHEEP 

 EAT READILY AND USE MUCH FOR FOOD. 



Vaccmium macrophyllum (Hook.) Piper. Broad leaved huckleberry. 



The most important sheep food in the white pine region. 

 Symphoricarpos racemosus Michx. Coral berry. Very much liked by 



the sheep. Especially abundant near the edges of the woods. 

 Amelanchier florida Lindl. Service berry. Well liked but not very 



leafy and not very abundant in the deep woods. 

 Acer douglasi Hook. Maple. Well liked but not very abundant. The 



sheep climb high to get the leaves of this. 

 Rosa nu/fcana Presl. Rather abundant and much eaten. 

 Cornus stolonifera Michx. Red dogwood. Well liked and fairly 



abundant. 



Thermopsis montana ovata Robinson. Well liked but not abundant. 

 Menziesia glabella Gray. Abundant and much eaten but not supplied 



with a very large amount of foliage. 



Lonicera utahemis Wats. Honeysuckle. Abundant and much eaten. 

 Spiraea corymbosa Raf. Spirea. Much eaten but too small to furnish 



a very great amount of food. 



Rosa gymnocarpa Nutt. Rose. Rather abundant and much eaten. 

 Alnus oregona Nutt. Alder. Abundant and much eaten. 

 Vagnera sessillfolla (Baker) Greene. False Solomon's seal. One of 



the delicate herbs which was much relished by the sheep and was 



fairly abundant. 



PLANTS EATEN VERY LITTLE AND OF No PRACTICAL 



GRAZING IMPORTANCE. 



Pachistima myrsinites (Pursh) Raf. This rather pretty evergreen shrub 

 is occasionally nibbled at by sheep but although it is very abundant 

 in these woods it furnishes practically no food to the sheep because 

 of their dislike for it. 



Rubus parviflorus Nutt. Thimble berry. This large leaved plant is 

 abundant in the white pine woods. It is, however, not often touched 

 by the sheep. It forms no appreciable factor in their food supply. 



Holodiscus discolor Maxim. Ocean spray. For some unaccountable 

 reason the sheep eat but little of this abundant shrub. 



Cornus canademis L. Dogwood. 



