Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, ColoradoAnderson, Sydney
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Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Anderson, Sydney
Mammals -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park
Not all areas within the Park are undisturbed. The rights of way of
roads are kept clear, as are campgrounds and other facilities in the
area of headquarters. Part of the Mancos Valley within the Park is
privately owned and is still in agricultural use. Cattle from land
belonging to the Ute Indians wander into the Park from the Mancos Canyon
along the floor of the canyon above the mouth of Weber Canyon. In
addition to the pasture near headquarters, Prater Canyon below a fence
across the canyon above Middle Well is used to pasture horses used by
visitors to the Park and belonging to the pack and saddle concessioner.
In 1956, the floor of Long Canyon was grazed by stock belonging to Utes,
and horses ranged freely onto Wetherill Mesa as far as the North Rim.
Occasionally livestock enter the floor of other canyons, for example
Navajo, Soda, Prater, Morfield, and Waters canyons, owing to inadequate
fencing, or no fencing.
[Illustration: FIG. 2. Map of Mesa Verde National Park and vicinity. The
map and this legend provide the names of places mentioned in the
following accounts of mammals. Localities from which specimens have been
preserved are indicated by dots. Localities within 1/2 mile of each
other are not indicated by separate dots. Unnumbered dots designate some
of the places from which specimens were obtained. The numbered dots are:
(1) Prater Grade; (2) Upper Well, Prater Canyon, 7575 ft.; (3) Chickaree
Draw, 8200 ft.; (4) 1/4 mi. N Middle Well, 7500 ft., Prater Canyon; (5)
east side of Morfield Canyon about one mile below the well; (6) Lower
Well, Prater Canyon; (7) Sect. 27, head of east fork Navajo Canyon; (8)
Far View, designated on various specimens as Far View Ruins, Far View
Point, and Far View House, 7700 ft.; (9) localities designated Utility
Area, and Well, "Park Well," or "Old Park Well"; (10) Headquarters,
including the designations 25 mi. [by road] SW Mancos, Museum, Hospital,
head of Spruce Tree Canyon, Spruce Tree House, and Spruce Tree Lodge;
(11) Cliff Palace, across the canyon about 1/4 mile southwest are Sun
Temple and Oak Tree Ruin; (12) Square Tower House; (13) Balcony House;
(14) Indian Cornfield, "Cornfield," or "Garden."]
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