Weed and Pirsson — Bearpaw Mountains, Montana. 285 



In topographic features the mountains present a good example 

 of simple sculpture, in which the dendritic system of drainage 

 is but little altered by the marked diversity of rock structure. 

 The region is well watered, but the streams are mostly of small 

 volume and head in perennial springs. With one or two excep- 

 tions, they flow rapidly in quiet, meandering courses through 

 grassy bottoms or groves of low willows, show little evidence 

 of spring floods, and are doing but little cutting at the present 

 time. Hone of them are of the normal torrential type so com- 

 mon in the western mountains. 



Fig. 1. — Sketch map of the Bearpaw Mts. 



Outside of the military reservation the region is settled 

 wherever there are level tracts suitable for cultivation or for 

 the cutting of hay. The heavy growth of grass and the gentle, 

 open nature of the country have been found especially suitable 

 for stock raising. 



