. Report of explorations in Colorado and Utah during the summer of 1889 : with an account of the fishes found in each of the river basins examined . Osprey Falls of Gardiner River. (See page 57.) Bull. U. 5. F. C. 1889—(To face page 58—2.) Jordan. Yellowstone Explorations. Plate Beaver Lake; showing Beaver Dams. (Seepages?.) EXPLORATIONS IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK 59 ginia Cascade (some 60 feet high) will probably prevent the ascent of fish (see plateXIX). Below these cascades is the open valley of the Norris Geyser Basin, and stilllower a broad meadow known as Elk Park. Several mile
. Report of explorations in Colorado and Utah during the summer of 1889 : with an account of the fishes found in each of the river basins examined . Osprey Falls of Gardiner River. (See page 57.) Bull. U. 5. F. C. 1889—(To face page 58—2.) Jordan. Yellowstone Explorations. Plate Beaver Lake; showing Beaver Dams. (Seepages?.) EXPLORATIONS IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK 59 ginia Cascade (some 60 feet high) will probably prevent the ascent of fish (see plateXIX). Below these cascades is the open valley of the Norris Geyser Basin, and stilllower a broad meadow known as Elk Park. Several miles below Elk Park in a narrowcanon is the Gibbon Falls (80 feet high), a picturesque cataract, which trout cer-tainly can not ascend (see plate XX). .Above this fall are no trout, but an abundanceof blob, or millers thumb (Coitus bairdi punetulatus), and it is not easy to explain howthey come to be there. Below the falls trout are abundant and, as in the Madison,grayling are said to be found. Canon Creek, a small clear stream, very cold &iid Withgfassy bottom, joins theGibbon River below the falls. This stream flows*through steep pastures, withoutfalls except near its source. It is 6 to 8 feet wade^ to 3 d& is well stockedwith trout. In this stream the blob is
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