NATIONAL FORESTS OF WYOMING 9 



of the Shoshone Tribe of Indians, who spent his life among its 

 mountains and on the adjacent plains and was eYer a friend of the 

 white man. On the map this forest has very much the shape of a 

 reversed question mark in which the "dot ? ' is separated from the 

 hook by a corner of the Shoshone Indian Reservation. 



Although this southern section, known as the Lander Division, 

 was practically stripped of its old trees by fires many years ago, 

 when the adjacent plains country was first being settled, it is still 

 covered with forest growth sufficient for watershed protection. 



The greater portion of the much larger northern division, drained 

 by many tributaries of Wind Kiver, is well timbered at the lower 

 and middle elevations with lodgepole pine, the predominant timber 

 type in the State, which gives place gradually, as a higher altitude 

 is reached, to Engelmann spruce, alpine fir, and limber pine. Many 

 of the creeks, however, which flow into Wind River from the south 

 drain a rocky region in which the more scattered timber stands 



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Fig. 5. — One of the unnamed lakes above Brooks Lake, Washakie National Forest 



are of value chiefly as watershed protection. Such stands are inci- 

 dentally valuable as shelter for wild life and as a scenic setting 

 for various forms of outdoor activity. Automobile roads penetrate 

 some of the steep-walled valleys of these streams for several miles, 

 but most of the region can be reached only on horseback with well- 

 equipped pack outfits. Throughout this portion of the forest, recre- 

 ation and livestock grazing are both important, but are subordinated, 

 if it is necessary, to watershed protection. 



Above the last timber-line outpost are broad mountain meadows 

 and grass lands where bands of sheep graze around the foot of high, 

 rugged mountain peaks that seem to touch the sky. Two of the 

 highest of these, Gannett Peak and Fremont Peak, are on the 

 boundary between the TTashakie and the Wyoming Xational Forests, 

 separating the headwaters of Wind River on the east from those of 

 Green River on the west. In this formidable setting are several 

 glaciers. The largest, in the head of Bull Lake Creek, possesses all 

 the features characteristic of typical glaciers. The glaciers on Din- 



