16 MISCELLANEOUS CIRCULAR 82, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Surveys recently completed on the Hoback River show that a 

 large number of ties can be cut from the timber there. The logical 

 means of utilization is to drive these ties down the Snake River to 

 a shipping point in Idaho. 



In general the Hoback River country is not particularly mountain- 

 ous; the lower part of the stream canyons up, but toward the sum- 

 mit it spreads out into a grassy, open country covered with sage- 

 brush, in which there are a number of scattered ranches. At the 

 head of the Hoback River there is a scarcely perceptible divide 

 between it and the headwaters of the Green River tributary. Far- 

 ther north the divide becomes higher and much more mountain- 

 ous, and the main ridges dividing the various streams that run into 

 Jackson Hole are likewise higher, the Gros Ventre Range in particu- 



Fig. 10. — The Tetons from the upper part of Jackson Hole — at the extreme right, 

 Mount Moran cut in two — Teton National Forest 



lar; but they are not cut up into spectacular peaks like the Tetons. 

 Jackson Hole itself is probably an old lake bed, in which the Snake 

 River has now entrenched itself to the depth of a hundred feet or 

 so. Because of the coarse, gravelly soil and the high elevation, crops 

 are pretty well limited to hay and cattle. Much of Jackson Hole, 

 especially the northern part, is uncultivated and consists of stony or 

 gravelly flats covered with grass, and, in places, sagebrush. 



The small portion of the Targhee National Forest lying in Wyo- 

 ming is enough like the Teton not to require separate description. 



WYOMING NATIONAL FOREST 



The Wyoming National Forest includes two areas which for many 

 years were administered as separate forests — the Wyoming and the 

 Bridger. This combination, all of which is now called the Wyo- 



