1915
1998
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Data Sheet
BEARS EARS FROM THE NORTH
General Description: The view here is to the southwest from a point
approximately .4 mile northwest of Bears Ears Pass. The site is within the
Manti-LaSal National Forest.
Soils: Deep loam.
Precipitation: 16 to 20 inches annually.
Legal Description: NW1/4 Section 30 T.36S., R.19W.
COMPARISON: Conifers have increased in the mountain shrub zone. The
denuded forground area has improved to the point where the site has nearly 100
percent plant cover with plant species such as sage brush, sandberg bluegrass,
thickspike wheatgrass, intermediate wheatgrass (introduced), sagebrush, mountain
snowberry and slender cinquefoil. A narrow wet zone has developed immediately
behind the photopoint.
Original:
Date: June 1915 (- A)
Photographer: M.R. Thorpe?
Source: University of Utah, Special Collections, H.E. Gregory Collection
Photograph Number: University of Utah No. 9-1387
Retake:
Date: July 16, 1998 (- B)
Photographer: Earl Hindley
Source: San Juan County
