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of albatrosses since his visit eight years before, due to the work of the 

 Japanese poachers. 



Salt River Eeservation. — Forest rangers on the Tonto National 

 Forest, Ariz., on which is located the Salt River Reservation, will 

 report two or three times a year on the condition of the band of 

 mountain sheep Avhich ranges in the southern part of the Forest. 



Keechelus Reservation. — The Forest Service will cooperate 

 through its forest rangers in enforcing the laws upon the Keechelus 

 Reservation and four others, which are located in National Forests in 

 the interior of Washington. 



NATIONAL BISON RANGE. 



Two buffalo calves were born on the National Bison Range, in 

 Montana, in September, 1910, and 19 in the spring of 1911. One male 

 and two female buffalo from the Blue Mountain Forest Park, N. H., 

 were presented by the American Bison Society and placed on the 

 range. As no losses occurred during the year, these additions bring 

 the present total of the herd up to 70. Twelve antelope were trans- 

 ferred from the Yellowstone National Park during the winter, four 

 of which died. Seven elk were transferred from Jackson Hole, Wyo., 

 in the early spring of 1911, all but one arriving in good condition. 



ALASKA. 



On July 29, 1910, new regulations were issued under the Alaskan 

 game laWj mainly to afford additional protection to deer and walrus. 

 The hunting season for deer was shortened, a bag limit of eight was 

 imposed, and the sale of venison was suspended during the year 1911. 

 The walrus season, besides being shortened, was moved forward. 

 Five wardens were employed during the year. 



Provision was made by Congress for a larger warden service by 

 means of an increase of $5,000 in the appropriation in the sundry 

 civil bill for warden service in 1912. A special report by the gov- 

 ernor on the operation of the game law was published by the Biolog- 

 ical Survey as Circular No. 77. Twenty-three permits were issued 

 for collection and export of specimens. The specimens entered com- 

 prised one moose, three brown bears, and several packages of birds, 

 eggs, and nests, secured for various museums in the United States 

 and one at Bucharest, Roumania. Under authorization by the gov- 

 ernor the following trophies were exported from the Territory: 

 Eleven caribou, 29 moose, 45 mountain sheep, and 31 brown bears. 



elk IN WYOMING. 



The appropriation made by Congress for caring for the starving 

 elk in the Jackson Hole region, Wyoming, being immediately avail- 

 able on March 4, Mr. Edward A. Preble, of the Biological Survey, 

 was at once sent to Wyoming to make a thorough examination of the 

 situation. Mr. D. C. Nowlin, recently State game warden, was ap- 

 pointed his assistant. It was found that the State had already pur- 

 chased all the available hay in Jackson Hole and was feeding as many 

 of the animals as possible. Attention was thereupon turned to other 

 phases of the problem. The conditions causing the lack of food and 



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