 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1902 - 208 Seiten
...growth of subalpine fir, white-bark pine, and lodgepole pine forms a scattered forest which has been greatly reduced by fire. Willow, huckleberry, pea...the ground of every trace of vegetation. Upward of 00,000 sheep were said to be ranging in this section and upon the tributaries of Entiat River in the... | |
 | 1902 - 380 Seiten
...growth of subalpine fir, white-bark pine, and lodgepole pine forms a scattered forest which has been greatly reduced by fire. Willow, huckleberry, pea...the ground of every trace of vegetation. Upward of (50,000 sheep were said to be ranging in this section and upon the tributaries of Entiat River in the... | |
 | Fred Beckey - 2000 - 404 Seiten
...upward of 60,000 sheep ranging the Entiat and tributaries. At the head of the Entiat and Mad Rivers, "the trampling and cutting of thousands of hoofs has...in many places denuded the ground of every trace of vegetation."10 Martin Gorman, after the first study of the forest reserve, penned words that ring a... | |
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... much harder than that gained from the soft watery grasses of the swamps. About the head of Mad River and the Entiat, grazing is mostly done at the altitudes above the yellow-pine zone, where a scrubby growth of subalpine fir, white-bark pine, and... 