NATIONAL FORESTS OF WYOMING 5 



Other activities on the Medicine Bow Forest are just as interesting 

 as those here discussed. In fact, all the activities described later 

 in connection with the other forests of the State could also be found 

 on the "Bow." Each of the other forests, however, may best be 

 seen through some line of work which is especially important there, 

 though, of coarse, it must be remembered that each forest has a 

 variety of resources and uses. 



HAYDEN NATIONAL FOREST 



Also in southern Wyoming, across the upper North Platte Valley 

 to the west of the Medicine Bow National Forest, is the Hayden 

 National Forest. The Sierra Madre Mountains of the Havclen are 



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Fig. 2. — Camp Fire Girls at Brooklyn Lake, Medicine Bow National Forest 



the northernmost extension of the mountainous Continental Divide 

 in Colorado. At the northern boundary of the Hayden Forest, the 

 Sierra Madres slope gently down into the broad, level plain of the 

 Great Divide Basin, where accurate surveying instruments are re- 

 quired to find the exact line between Atlantic and Pacific slopes. 



The Hayden covers about 400,000 acres, a little of it in Colorado. 

 There are some fine stands of lodgepole pine and Engelmann spruce 

 in the upper (south) end. A great deal of this region, which makes 

 up the Encampment and Big Creek watersheds, was cut over very 

 heavily for ties and lumber before the establishment of the old 

 Sierra Madre Eeserve (as the Hayden was first called), but on much 

 of it a very thrifty second growth which promises rich yields in the 

 future is now coming in. Extensive uncut areas show the quality 



