128 ABSAEOKA DIVISION OF TELLOWSTONE FOBEST RESERVE . 



Grazing capacity. — The foothill areas are grassy and serve as pasture lands. 



Drainage conditions. — ^The run-oj3f originating in the township is insignificant 

 in volume and consists wholly of the outflow from small springs. 



Snow and rock slides. — Along the steep fronts of the spurs in the central 

 areas rock slides are not uncommon. 



Towns and settlements. — None. 



Forest conditimis. — The bases of the mountains in the northern areas are 

 fringed with close-set stands of lodgepole pine and aspen 20 to 35 years old. 

 The middle elevations are temporarily deforested through the agency of extensive 

 forest fires. The upper areas carry thin and scattered stands of subalpine 

 growth, low, scrubby, and only valuable for fuel and for the stability they impart 

 to the steep slopes. 



Outtvng. — In the southeast quarter of the township practically all the timber 

 on 1,500 acres has been cut, chiefly as fire-killed timber. 



Bums. — Extensive fires have' laid waste much of the forest. The front of 

 the spurs, where they abut on the foothill areas, have been swept nearly clean 

 of living forest. Most of the fires date back six or seven years. 



Reproduction. — The restocking on the burned-over tracts is progressing slowly. 

 About 50 per cent are covered with growths 4 to 6 years old. On the others no 

 reforesting process has yet begun. In the foothills young growth is exceedingly 

 abundant, and the aspen and lodgepole-pine stands are slowly pushing out into the 

 hitherto nontimbered lands in the north part of the township. In the subalpine 

 areas the young growth is scanty. 



Undergrowth. — In the green timber underbrush is sparsely represented; on the 

 burned-over areas not reforesting, a brush growth, chiefly composed of Oeanothus, 

 thickly covers the ground. 



Litter. — Moderate quantities of fire-killed timber litter the forest in the 

 foothills and at medium altitudes. 



Humus. — None. 



Classification of lands in T. 7 S., M. 19 E. 



Acres. 



Forested 12, 040 



Nonf crested 11, OOO 



Badly burned 6, 000 



Logged 1,500 



Agricultural None. 



Grazing 3,000 



Bare rocks 2, 000 



