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Green River, is managed under sustained yield — the ultimate goal 

 of forest management — and produces railroad ties for the Union 

 Pacific Railroad. The broad, plateau-like top of the Salt River 

 Range provides good forage for cattle and sheep. The steep slopes 

 on the west side of the range extending into Star Valley contain 

 bodies of timber which are more scattered than are those on its east 

 side, or in the Greys River region to the north. 



There is considerable demand from Afton and the other towns 

 in Star Valley along the Idaho-Wyoming line for timber from 

 Wyoming National Forest. This is a rather fertile, though ele- 

 vated valley, and is fairly well populated. Dairying has been 

 devoloped there, and a number of successful creameries are in opera- 

 tion. This valley also gets part of its timber and large quantities 

 of firewood from the Caribou National Forest, on the opposite side, 



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Fig. 14. — Cattle grazing on a small meadow in Lower Pole Creek range, Wyoming 



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SHOSHONE NATIONAL FOREST 



in Idaho. Most of the lodgepole pine, however, comes from the 

 Wyoming National Forest. 



The Shoshone was Buffalo Bill's country. Names of places and 

 things all the way from the town of Cody, the forest headquarters, 

 which is named after him, to Pahaska Tepee, his old hunting lodge, 

 50 miles up the North Fork of the Shoshone River, keep fresh the 

 memory of this famous scout. Hosts of people drive up the park 

 road from Cody, and many spend their summers among the more 

 remote timber stands on the Shoshone National Forest. 



The Shoshone National Forest slopes eastward from the Absaroka 

 Range and Yellowstone National Park toward the Big Horn Basin. 

 Five good roads radiating from Cody cross or extend up into the 

 forest at fairly regular intervals, following the main stream courses. 

 The forest is so vast, however — it covers an area of more than a 

 million and a half acres — that these roads give automobile access 



