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[[underlined]] Salt River Valley [[/underlined]]

Cervus canadensis, 11 in pasture at Thayne.
Sciurus
Eutamias consobrinus, common in valleys
Citellus elegans, many seen all day
Thomomys   , common all along
One caught at Thayne, large hills.
Lepus bairdi, Tracks seen in valley
Canis latrans, tracks com. heard.
Taxidia   , Tracks & holes com.
One dead, skull saved, near Thayne. 

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Stock raising seems to be the chief industry of the valleys & much hay is cut, alfalfa does well and the second crop is nearly grown. There is good grazing in the valleys, but many sheep are kept in Grand Valley & the mts are sheeped base. The stock in Salt R. valley is mainly cattle and the country is grassy & the Salt River Mts. look fresh & green.

The mts. are poorly timbered but the lower slopes to the valley edges are covered with Aspens in dense growth, even on S. W. slopes that are not too steep and dry. In places they grow on flats in the valley bottoms, showing its near approach to Canadian zone. The valley seems to be mainly Transition, with Populus angustifolia along the streams & sagebrush over the side slopes. Artemisia tridentata and arbuscula are most common, but there is lots of cana?, ludovicians and dracunculoides. Balsamorrhiza saggittata and Wyethia and Bigelovia tortifolia are common

Frost in morning at Thayne.