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woody Creek are nearly as large. Other smaller glaciers are located 

 on Torrey Creek. This region is a veritable paradise for mountain 

 climbers. 



The Wind River Valley, all but the head of which lies outside the 

 forest boundary, separates the northern division into two portions, 

 one of which, the northern portion, has a great deal of merchantable 

 timber. Up through the ranch land in Wind River Valley runs the 

 road from Lander, the terminus of the Chicago & North Western 

 Railroad. Another road, coming from Riverton, joins it a few miles 

 above Fort Washakie. Where the road crosses Wind River, at the 

 mouth of Du Noir Creek, is the beginning of the Teton Game Refuge, 

 in which no hunting is allowed. About 7 miles farther on, the road 

 enters the Washakie National Forest and climbs more rapidly 

 toward Twogwotee Pass in the Continental Divide, which marks the 

 boundary between the Washakie and the Teton National Forests. 



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Fig. 6. — On one of the Bull Lake camp grounds, Washakie National Forest 



Descending into Jackson Hole on the west side of the divide, this 

 highway leads to the southern entrance of Yellowstone National 

 Park. 



LUMBERING 



The notion that the Washakie is merely an impressive wilder- 

 ness area is soon dispelled on a visit to the large tie operations in this 

 part of the forest. On the upper slopes of the Wind River, 150 miles 

 northwest of Lander, where the forest headquarters are located, is 

 a camp of 200 to 300 woods workers, known as Du Noir. From the 

 surrounding stands of timber are cut annually from 300,000 to 600,000 

 ties, which are driven down Wind River to Riverton. Here they are 

 treated and afterwards distributed for use along the Chicago & North 

 Western Railroad. This operation removes about 60 to 70 per cent 

 of the volume of trees 10 inches and more in diameter on the area 



