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Agricultural adaptability. — None of the lands in the township are agricultural 

 in character. 



Grazing capacity. — The township contains many marshy glades along its 

 streams and tarns; large areas of the northern portions are situated at or above 

 timber line and present grass- or sedge-covered slopes. These tracts are suitable 

 for pasturage, but are not utilized. 



Drainage conditions. — The outflow from this township is very large and 

 continuous. The chief water heads of Clark Fork rise in it; of these there are 

 two, the main Clark Fork and the Broadwater. The former is a small stream 

 12 to 15 feet wide and 10 to 18 inches deep at medium stage; it flows in a 

 wide canyon which in the southeast corner of the township ends in a broad flat. 

 The Broadwater tributary is sunk in a deep, rocky canyon, the central portion 

 of which has a remarkably level floor, the total fall in a distance of nearly 3 

 miles probably not exceeding 5 feet. The stream varies from 40 to 500 feet in 

 width and from 15 inches to 8 feet in depth. Here and there it expands into 

 lakelets, some of which are one mile long and nearly one-half mile wide. A 

 short distance above its junction with Clark Fork, in the southeast corner of the 

 township, the stream leaves its canyon through a narrow gorge, affording an 

 excellent site for a storage dam. The hydrographic features of this township 

 are of the greatest importance to the maintenance of the flow in Clark Fork. 



Snow and rock slides. — In the high areas of the township avalanches are not 

 uucommon. 



Forest conditions. — The central areas of the township are covered with close- 

 set stands of lodgepole pine and Engelmann spruce, mostly old growths. On the 

 high-l3'ing tracts the forest, subalpine in type, is low and scrubby, and is scattei'ed 

 around the margins of tarns and in the more sheltered localities in the hollows 

 and ravines. 



Gutting. — Near the junction of Clark Fork and its Broadwater tributary 60 

 per cent of the timber has been cut on 3,000 acres. The timber was used partly 

 for fuel and mill timber and partly in the burning of charcoal for use of a 

 former smelter in Cooke City. 



Burns. — A few small burns occur in the southeast quarter of the tract. 



Reproduction. — Abundant, except in the high subalpine areas. The young 

 growth is composed of the same species and in nearly the same ratio as the old 

 stands. 



Undergrowth. — Light. 



Litter. — Litter, composed of timber killed by overcrowding, is of moderate 

 volume in the stands at the lower elevations. In the subalpine forest it is 

 nearly lacking. 



Hwmus. — Light, mostly totally lacking. 



