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<br />33 <br />L~ <br />The two historic sites, 5RT17 and 5RT25, represent the recent utiliza- <br />tion of the area by Euro-Americans and most likely date from the early to <br />middle portion of this century. The only portion of site 5RT25 in use at <br />the time of survey was the corral, This corral was utilized as a holding <br />pen for sheep loading. <br />Tract 2 <br />Environment <br />Tract 2 (Fig. 3) is situated in a somewhat different environmental <br />setting than the easternmost tracts described above. It is located on a <br />drainage divide between the Yampa River and the ~•Jilliams Fork River, yielding <br />slopes that face both south and north. Furthermore, the drainages that <br />dissect the tract are predominately either north or south-trending. There <br />is considerable variation in the amount of available water and this is re- <br />flected by the varying nature of the vegetative cover. <br />The southern part of the tract lies several miles north of the Wil- <br />liams Fork River. This interval presents a spectacular view of desert- <br />]ike terrain consisting of steep-walled narrow canyons with flat inter- <br />fluvial ridges and numerous sandstone outcrops. Proceeding in a northerly <br />direction, however, the terrain loses some of the sharpness. Slopes be- <br />come gentler, contours become smoother, and the vegetative cover increases. <br />This continues until the Williams Fork Mountains descend onto the Yampa River <br />floodplain beyond the northern boundary of the tract. <br />The vegetation in Tract 2 varies along with the terrain; that is, <br />sparser in the southern portions, much denser and more lush to the north, <br />