National Park Service: Fauna2

cover to Fauna 2
Fauna Series No. 2

Cover

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Part I

Part II

Fauna of the National Parks
of the United States

PART II

REPORT CONCERNING OVERGRAZING AS A LANDSCAPE PROBLEM

Hillside trails, Yellowstone
Figure 46. – Elk trails scarring the hillsides, about which Mattson spoke.
(Photograph taken May 19, 1932, at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone. Wildlife Division No. 2258.)

Overbrowsed by elk, Yellowstone
Figure 47. – Elk-browsed junipers and Douglas firs along the road between Mammoth and Gardiner. This is not only a landscape problem of today, but of the future, for practically no coniferous reproduction is succeeding.
(Photograph taken June 8, 1932, near Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowsone. Wildlife Division No. 2542.)

Sagebrush carcasses, Yellowstone
Figure 48. – Carcasses, but not of elk; just sagebrush remains of the once luxuriantly sage-covered hills of northern Yellowstone.
(Photograph taken May 23, 1932, Mount Everts, Yellowsone. Wildlife Division No. 2037.)

NEXT> Photo Collection (continued)

Top

History | Links to the Past | National Park Service | Search | Contact

Last Modified: Tues, Feb 1 2000 07:08:48 pm PDT
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/fauna2/fauna3c1a.htm