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- Radium Hot Springs June 27/43. [1943]
Today examined the winter sheep
range adjacent to the Springs.
The more open parts are largely
outside the park + give evidence of
heavy overgrazing with gully +
sheet erosion + mechanical soil
damage heavy along the benches
+ valley of Sinclair Creek. There
is some submarginal timber
range for sheep - fair mule
deer range - in the park but
even this is being rapidly
extirpated by forest cover.
Plants in the timber range are
Fir, + pine, some aspen, Shepherdia
abundant, Amelanchier, chokecherry,
dogwood + Ceonathus uncommon
rose + both Junipers abundant.
In this region there was a heavy
carry over of pine grass - 75% to 80%
but this is a poor or useless
late winter + spring forage.
Juniperus communis [underlined] fairly
heavily browsed, Ceonathus [word crossed out]
Amelanchier, rose + dogwood
moderately eaten but too scarce
to be important
On the benches scattered firs +
aspen provide the forest cover. The
bunch grass carryover is practically
nil. (Grasses collected) [underlined] Fir moderately browsed
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