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BROWSE TYPE 



Per Cent 



Surface covered 100 



Density 90 



Palatability 50 



No timber. (Scattered Douglas fir saplings.) 



GRASSES 35% WEEDS 25% SHEUBS 40% 



Pine grass Columbine Aspen 



Bromus Sego lily Willow 



Rye grass Geranium Ceanothus 



Fescue Yarrow Buckbrush 



Senecio Large huckleberry 



Peavine 



Paint brush 



Valerian 



Strawberry 



WEED TYPE 



Per Cent 



Surface covered 60 



Density 70 



Palatability 50 



Timber: White fir, lodge-pole pine, Engelmann spruce. 



GRASSES 20% WEEDS 60% SHRUBS 20% 



Blue grass Meadow rue Small huckleberry 



Monkshood Currant 



Valerian Spiraea 



Saxifrage Serviceberry 

 Strawberry 



The return from the lamb crop is largely dependent on the 

 handling of the ewe bands with lambs on the summer ranges. 

 It has been noted on this Forest that lambs from two differ- 

 ent bands of the same breed of ewes having equal chances 

 on like ranges have in the fall differed in average weights as 

 much as 17.7 pounds. This difference in weight can therefore 

 be due to one thing, that is, faulty handling of the sheep. 

 It might also be said here that lambs grazed outside the For- 

 est weighed 64 pounds, while those grazed inside the Forest 

 on like range weighed 67% pounds at selling time. From the 

 summer ranges the sheep are driven back to the lower fall 

 sheep and mutual ranges, and in this way are able to utilize 

 the forage not touched by cattle during the summer. Neither 

 the ewes nor the remaining lambs are, at this time, so much 

 dependent on succulent forage for proper growth and devel- 

 opment, and can therefore utilize the left-over areas to good 

 advantage. Here they remain until the snow forces them to 

 seek the open winter ranges at the lower altitudes. 



