FOREST CONDITIONS IN THE ABSAROKA DIVISION OF THE YEL- 

 LOWSTONE FOREST RESERVE AND THE UVINGSTON AliD BIG 

 TIMBER QUADRANGLES. 



By John B. Leiberg. 



ABSAROKA DIVISION OF YELLOWSTONE RESERVE. 



IjOCATIOlSr AND EXTENT. 



The tract of land here designated the Abaaroka division of the Yellowstone 

 Forest Reserve was originally the Absaroka Forest Reserve. By proclamation of 

 January 29, 1903, this reserve was merged with the Teton and the Yellowstone forest 

 reserves, the whole taking the name of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve. The 

 western, northern, and eastern boundaries, as then established and as applicable to 

 the Absaroka division, are as follows: 



"Beginning at the point where the range line between ranges nine (9) and ten 

 (10) east, principal meridian, Montana, intersects the northern boundary of the 

 Yellowstone National Park; thence northerly along said surveyed and unsurveyed 

 range line, allowing for the proper offset on the first (1st) standard parallel south, to 

 the southwest corner of section eighteen (18), township four (4) south, range ten (10) 

 east; thence easterly to the southeast corner of said section; thence northerly to the 

 northeast corner of section six (6), said township; thence easterlj' to the southeast 

 corner of section thirty-two (32), township three (3) south, range ten (10) east; thence 

 northerly to the northeast corner of section five (5), said township; thence easterly 

 along the township line to the northeast corner of township three (3) south, range 

 eleven (11) east; thence southerly to the ^southeast corner of said township; thence 

 easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the point for the south- 

 west corner of township three (3) south, range fourteen (14) east; thence northerly 

 along the surveyed and unsurveyed range line to the northwest corner of township 

 two (2) south, range fourteen (14) east; thence easterly to the northeast corner of 

 said township; thence southerly to the point for the southeast corner of said town- 

 ship; thence easterly to the point for the northeast corner of township three (3) south, 

 range fifteen (15) east; thence southerly to the point for the southeast corner of said 

 township; thence easterly along the surveyed and unsurveyed township line to the 

 northwest corner of township four (4) south, range eighteen (18) east; thence south- 

 erly along the range line to its intersection with the first (1st) standard parallel south; 



