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Ashnola River.
June 22-24 [1955]
River Road closed by washout at
Horseshoe; hiked in to Cabin on 22nd.
On 23rd climbed to Starvation
flats + then on over south slope
Hot sunny day for central 6 hours
cloudy + mild in early morning.
Grass on ranges in excellent condition
Gate open but no cattle on south
slope, estimate 100 head on entire
area. Saw 3 bulls at large.
In my estimation grass on south
slope has improved about 20% over
the last 5 years + I can see no
reason to suspect shortage of winter
range as the factor limiting the
increase of this herd of bighorn
Census [underlined]
51 [female symbol] + yearlings, 31 lambs,
20 Rams as follows. [illegible numbers crossed out], 7 2 yrs [years], 3 3, 2 4, 1 5,
6 yrs [years] + 10 [words crossed out] 10 [crossed out] 7 6 yrs [years] +
If we assume 14 yearlings then 37 ad [adult]
[female symbol] had 31 lambs. However I do not
believe there were more than 6 yearlings
Something is killing a fairly large
part of the young group before it
is a year old. Predatory animals
are still present. A coyote was seen
to attack a lamb in this group
on Flatiron some 2 weeks ago.
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