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BROWSE (Along Creeks) 



Per Cent 



Surface supporting vegetation 90 



Density 70 



Palatability 30 



GRASSES 15% WEEDS 15% SHRUBS 70% 



% 



Pine grass Aster Thimbleberry 10 



Sedges Potentilla Currant 10 



Bromus Senecia Mock orange 20 



Clover Gooseberry 10 



Arnica Spiraea 5 



Serviceberry 10 



Willow 10 



Maple 10 



Rose 5 



Alder 10 



SMALL HUCKLEBERRY 



Per Cent 



Surface supporting vegetation 60 



Density 40 



Palatability 30 



Timber: Lodge pole pine. 



GRASSES 10% WEEDS 15% BROWSE 75% 



Pine grass Lupine Small huckleberry 



Fireweed 

 Anophilus 

 Arnica 



It may be said of the small huckleberry type, that it is 

 practically worthless from a grazing standpoint, and it oc- 

 curs principally on the higher spring and fall and some of 

 the summer sheep ranges in the neighborhood of the high 

 mountains. 



In the spring and early summer, as soon as the forage on 

 the respective ranges has attained a sufficient growth to pre- 

 vent excessive injury by grazing and trampling, the stocks 

 are allowed to drift or are driven from the low winter ranges 

 onto the higher ranges. This generally takes place during 

 April and May for cattle, and the sheep go on the summer 

 range in late June or early July. The type of forage on this 

 class of range necessitates that it be used as early as pos- 

 sible, since pine grass in its early stages of growth is quite 

 palatable and succulent, but later on as the dry summer weath- 

 er continues, pine grass becomes more harsh and loses its pal- 

 atability and forage value to a large extent, and while the 

 stock do not relish it under these conditions, they will graze 



