TOWNSHIP DESCRIPTIONS. 31 



Agricultural adaptability. — Along the west line of the township in the Deer 

 Creek drainage there are small tracts of tillable land. In general the region is much 

 too rough and rolling to be cultivable, and lacks water for irrigation. 



Grazing capacity. — The western and northeastern areas, composed chiefly of 

 thinly stocked woodlands or of tracts devoid of trees, are suitable for stock ranges. 

 Portions have long been used as sheep runs and have been more or less badly 

 overgrazed 



Drainage conditions. — The outflow originating in the township is of small 

 volume, and is carried by upper Deer Creek. Most of the runs and ravines are dry 

 during summer and fall. 



Towns and settlements. — None. 



Forest conditions. — The forest is composed of red fir, limber pine, and lodgepole 

 pine, red fir being the prevailing species. On the northern slopes the stands are 

 set close; elsewhere they are thin and scattering. Fifty per cent of the forest con- 

 sists of young sapling stands — reforestations after fires that burned thirty to fifty 

 years ago. The timber is difficult of access. 



Woodlands. — The woodlands comprising the foothill region or tracts below the 

 5,500-foot contour carry a thin and scattering growth of limber pine, yellow pine, 

 red fir, aspen, and cottonwood. The growth possesses only a fuel value. 



Gutting. — Small quantities have been culled for farm use in various places along 

 the north and west lines. 



Burns. — Six or eight years ago extensive fires in the central portion of the 

 township laid waste large blocks of red fir and lodgepole pine, and destroyed most 

 of the standing timber on the tracts burned over. 



Reproduction. — Reforestation is scanty on the more recent ■ burns. The tend- 

 ency is toward brush growth instead of timber. Red fir is the prevailing species 

 in the restockage. On tracts burned over thirty or forty years ago close-set 

 stands of red fir are coming in abundantly. 



Undergrowth. — Light. 



Litter. — On the burned-over tracts litter of dead and fallen and partly 

 consumed timber is abundant; elsewhere there is little of this material. 



Humus. — None . 



Classification of lands in. T. 2 S., R. 14 E. 



Acres. 



Forested - 9, 540 



Wooded... 5,700 



Nontimbered 7, 800 



'. Badly burned 3,800 



togged None. 



. Agricultural 1, 000 



Grazing (including woodlands) 8, 700 



Bare rocks 1 1, 000 



