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Index

Allen's Park, 339.
Andrews Glacier, 343.
Arapahoe Glacier, 251, 255, 260, 261, 343.
Arapahoe Peak, 260.
Ash, seeds, 296.
Aspen, after a fire, 160.
Aspen Gulch, 13-15.
Avalanches. See Rock avalanche, Snowslides.
Basswood, seeds, 300.
Bears, escaping from a forest fire, 143, 144;
a mother and cubs, 240.
Bears, black, two cubs and a forest fire, 144;
attacked by wasps, 180;
carrying pine cones, 301.
Bears, grizzly, and a forest fire, 144;
and roasted deer after the fire, 149, 150;
two pet cubs, 207-209;
the further history of Johnny, 209-219;
curiosity, 214;
agility, 215.
Beaver, the Moraine Colony, 19-46;
characteristics and usefulness, 19, 40, 41, 46, 47;
dams, 21, 31-34, 45, 53, 54;
houses, 21, 22, 31, 42, 44, 54;
felling trees, 21, 24, 25, 58-65;
harvest piles, 22, 41, 42, 56, 57, 65, 66;
coÖperation, 22-24, 43, 44;
working by daylight, 23, 62;
play, 23;
transporting logs and branches, 23, 24, 54-62;
village destroyed by fire, 26, 27;
attacked by mountain lion, 28, 29, 35, 36;
attacked by coyote, 29, 30, 36;
journeying by water and by land, 30, 31;
migration from ruined village, 29-31;
raided by trappers, 31;
need of ponds, 34, 35;
house dynamited, 35;
young, 36, 37;
a migration witnessed, 38, 39;
aged beaver, 38, 39, 51, 52, 63-65;
explorations of old males, 39, 40;
the first conservationist, 40, 41;
making a new pond, 44, 45;
pitchy wood and dead wood avoided, 45, 46;
canals, 45, 56;
ford, 45, 52, 66;
the Spruce Tree Colony, 51-67;
tunnels, 53;
log slides, 54-56;
the Island Colony, 61, 62;
ready for winter, 66.
Beetles, depredations in forests, 174-181, 195.
Big Thompson River, 345.
Big tree, immune from insects, 173;
seeds, 299.
Bighorn. See Sheep, mountain.
Birds, of Estes Park, 347.

Blizzard, 311-316.
Borers, depredations in forests, 182, 195.
Camp-bird. See Jay, Rocky Mountain.
Camp-fires, as origins of forest fires, 152, 153, 155, 156.
Carpenter, Prof. L. G., on forests, 127.
Chapman, Frank M., 200.
Chasm Lake, 343.
Cherry, seed-sowing, 298, 299.
Chipmunk, 325.
Cimarron, 242.
Clouds, of mountain-tops, 80, 81;
a snow-cloud, 81-84.
Cocoanut, 302.
Conifers, seed-distribution, 297, 298.
Cottonwood, seeds, 296, 301.
Couple, elderly, in a log house, 110-112.
Court-House Rock, 242, 243.
Coyote, attacking beaver, 29, 30, 36;
fleeing from a forest-fire, 143;
after the fire, 149.
Deer, in a forest fire, 142, 143.
Dendroctonus, 196.
Dogs, story of a tramp dog, 93-105;
Scotch and the bear Johnny, 213;
Scotch in a mountain blizzard, 309-320.
Electrical storms, 85-88.
Elk, in a forest fire, 142.
Erosion, after forest fires, 165, 166;
by glaciers, 251;
a study of, 271, 272, 281-286.
Estes Park, glaciers in, 260, 338, 341-343;
attractions, 337, 338, 348;
forest fires, 339;
forests, 340, 341;
Long's Peak, 341-343;
lakes, 343, 344;
streams and caÑons, 344, 345;
animal life, 346;
flowers, 346, 347;
birds, 347;
trails, 347.
Fern Lake, 347.
Fir, Douglas, 279.
Fires. See Forest Fires.
Flat-Top, 341, 347.
Flowers, of Estes Park, 346, 347.
Foot, an injured, 233, 234, 241-243.
Forest fires, watching, 139-170;
varying speed of, 141, 142, 167;
wild animals in, 142-145;
rarely make a clean sweep, 145, 146;
dead trees burning after, 146, 147;
extent, 147;
destroy humus, 148, 149;
loss of animal life in, 149;
storm of ashes after a fire, 150, 151;
upbuilding after, 152;
origins of, 152, 153, 155, 156, 162, 163, 176;
methods of fighting, 152, 153, 163-165;
trees standing after, 154, 158;
geysers of flame, 158, 159, 169;
duration of, 161, 162;
protection against, 163-165;
erosion after, 165, 166;
explosions of rock caused by, 169, 170;
interrelation with destructive insects, 173, 174, 186;
wood preserved by, 187.
Forests, as wood-producers, 124;
as water-distributors, 124, 125;
other uses, 125;
as moderators of climate, 125, 126;
as windbr eaks, 126;
delaying evaporation, 126-129;
necessary to agriculture, 127, 128;
as reservoirs, 128-130;
as regulators of stream-flow, 130;
as makers of soil, 131, 132;
as bird-shelters, 132, 133;
as sanitary agents, 133;
evils following destruction of, 134;
preËminent in promoting the general welfare, 134, 135;
insect enemies of, 173-189;
observations of a forested and a deforested region during a rain, 267-287;
the forest floor, 273, 274.
Fort Garland, 112, 113, 118, 119.
Fungi, enemies of trees, 183, 184.
Fungus, false-tinder, 184.
Glacier Gorge, 341, 347.
Glaciers, work of, 247-250;
Muir and Henderson on, 250;
rate of movement, 251;
Arapahoe, 251, 255, 260, 261;
grinding and excavating powers, 251-253;
moraines, 253-255;
lakes made by, 253, 343;
strange freight, 255, 256;
mineral wealth, 256;
making soil, 257;
formation, 258, 259;
in the Rocky Mountains, 258, 260-263, 338, 341-343;
bergschlunds and crevasses, 260, 261;
pleasures of investigation, 263.
Grand Lake, 348.
Grand River, 309;
forest fires on, 140-153.
Granite Pass, wind in, 75-77.
Greenwood, Grace, 337.
Ground-hog, 282.
Grouse, fleeing from a forest fire, 144.
Hallett Glacier, 343.
Hallett Peak, 341.
Henderson, Junius, quoted, 250.
Horne's Peak, l">330;
young, 330;
longevity, 330, 333;
story of a pair, 330-334.
Sycamore, seeds, 297.
Taylor Peak, 341.
Thatch-Top, 341.
Thompson CaÑon, 344, 345.
Thrush, Audubon's hermit, 287, 347.
Trees, relations to mankind, 123, 134, 135;
as sanitary agents, 133;
medicines and foods produced by, 133, 134;
uprooted and transported by a landslide, 236-239;
up a tree in a storm, 276-278;
seeds and seeding, 291-305.
See also Forests.
Turret-Top, 243.
Uncompahgre Mountains, trip through, 223-243.
Uncompahgre Peak, 224.
Wasps, feeding on grubs, 179;
and bear, 180.
Water-ouzel, 269-271, 347.
Weather, of alpine zone of Rocky Mountains, 71-89.

Weevils, in forest-trees, 182, 191.
Wet Mountain valley, 101.
Wild Basin, 347.
Willows, seeds, 296.
Wind River, 347.
Winds, on mountain-tops, 72-80;
drying powers of, 126, 127;
a mountain blizzard, 311-316.
Witch-hazel, flowers and seeds, 301.
Woodpecker, Batchelder, 197.
Woodpecker, downy, the most useful bird citizen, 193, 200;
a downy at work, 201-204.
Woodpecker, hairy, 197, 198.
Woodpeckers, value as destroyers of noxious insects, 193-198;
holes, 198, 199;
winter lodgings, 199;
nesting-holes, 199, 200.

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THE
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