The tracks are made when grazing animals walk along a hill side while grazing. To spend as little energy as possible, they graze along height contours. After a while a terrace is formed.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Cattle
• Terraces (Geology)
• Animals--Food
• Landforms
• Grazing

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_147; Cowan_PN_764; Cowan Colour Slides - Locations - Box 11

Date created

• 1990

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 slide : colour

Alternative title

• Stock trails
• Cat steps

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Columbia River

Coordinates

• 49.0036, -117.6203

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• color photographs
• photographs
• color slides
• slides (photographs)

Fonds title

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Fonds identifier

• AR514

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/rdp7-js05

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