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is now covered with an open stand of aspen (popple} 3 - 5 inches D B H. mixed with it is an abundance of pin cherry, Mt Ash, [[underlined]] Virburnum alnifolium  V. cassioides [[/underlined]] willow. [[?]]dered & mountain maple. Scatter clumps of balsam (P. balsimifera) and Red & White spruce are present. Some release cutting has been done as ISI job the staff cut being largely aspen. No harm In fact the favoring of those scattered clumps of evergreens may tend to scatter the game more evenly over this area which has at present an abundance of browse for deer and a super abundance of buds & berries for grouse. Saw deer tracks (3 deer), grouse sign in abundance, 3 porky tracks, 1 coon track, few squirrel (red squirrel - cottontail rabbit and snowshoe. Most game sign since leaving Allegheny N.F. Deer browsing rather light & sporadic until we reached the yard. Here everything had been worked heavily. Mt Ash, Viburnum & Maple seemed the favorites everything above the snow line been eaten back to heavy twigs. Willow eaten heavily & Lonicera likewise. Alder eaten some in heart of yard. All needles & branches of balsam Showed browsing and in dozens of trees considerable areas of bark had been taken by the deer. Mountain Ash almost riddled. The caretaker had cut approximately 12 acres of red maple back a year ago in March to induce a spot growth