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Oregon 



Our Northwestern Field Agent, Mr. 

 William L. Finley, State Game Warden 

 of Oregon, has just succcssfullj' trans- 

 planted a herd of fifteen elk from Jackson 

 Hole, Wyoming, to the Chesnimnimus 

 Forest, in Wallowa county, Oregon. 



This is the first time that so large a 

 herd has been transferred so great a dis- 

 tance under such difficulties and over 

 roads so bad. The elk were crated and 

 hauled on sleds for ninety miles over the 

 almost impassable Teton Pass, at an 

 elevation of more than eight thousand feet, 

 and with the snow from ten to forty feet 

 deep. They were then transferred to a 

 box car at St. Anthony, Idaho, and, after 

 four days on the railroad, were delivered 

 at Joseph. From this point they had 

 twelve days of travel on wagons through 

 more than thirty miles of mud, and by 

 sled through ten miles of snow so deep that 

 the roads had to be broken out as the 

 teams went along. 



During the first stage of the journey 

 from Jackson Hole, a snow storm of such 

 severity was encountered that it required 

 four days to traverse twenty-eight miles. 

 The strain of the travel was so severe on 

 the elk that, when they reached St. 

 Anthony, they were released and allowed 

 a day's rest in a corral. 



Readers of Bird-Lore are already aware 

 of the starved condition of the elk in 

 Jackson Hole, during the winter, which 

 has existed until recently, and will, there- 

 fore, rejoice to know that a nucleus from 

 this congested point has been provided 

 for the establishing of a herd in Oregon, 

 under more satisfactory conditions. 



In regard to Mr. Finley 's general work 

 of late in the interest of wild-life protec- 

 tion, he writes under date of May 6, 191 2: 



"I am just completing arrangements 

 for a state reserve on private property 

 adjoining the Malheur reserve, which will 

 be of importance to us because the only 

 colony of White Herons in that part of 

 the country are nesting on this land. I 

 have also completed arrangements for 

 some 30,000 acres in the southeastern 



section of the state, in the Catlo Valley, 

 to be used as a reserve for the protection 

 of antelope. 



"We have been pushing the matter of 

 getting lands in difTerent sections of the 

 state set aside as wild-bird refuges, and 

 up to date we have some very important 

 reserves in addition to our Government 

 reserves." 



Mr. Finley has given twenty pul)lic 

 addresses in the state during the past 

 few weeks, and reports that much interest 

 is being shown in bird work by the school 

 children, and in many places much atten- 

 tion is being given to the construction of 

 boxes to be used as nesting-places for 

 birds.— T. G. P. 



The writer recently returned from an 

 exceedingly interesting trip to Florida, 

 where he went in the interest of the gen- 

 eral Audubon work, and with special 

 reference to Egret protection. 



Mosquito Inlet Reservation was visited, 

 where Warden Captain B. J. Pacetti was 

 found faithfully patrolling the twenty 

 miles of territory in which thousands of 

 birds of many species find a safe retreat. 

 Twenty-one Snowy Egrets were counted 

 here, although they do not have a nesting- 

 place on the reservation. 



On Pelican Island, in Indian River, 

 several hundred Pelicans were seen sitting 

 on eggs which were just beginning to 

 hatch, a cold wave a few months pre- 

 viously having destroyed the young of 

 the first laying. They are carefully pro- 

 tected by warden Paul Kroegel, who visits 

 the island constantly in the Association's 

 patrol boat "Audubon." 



At Key West, the wife of Warden Guy 

 Bradle}', who was killed by plume-hunters 

 some years ago, was visited. With her 

 family, she is living in the home purchased 

 for her by the members of this Association 

 shortly after the tragic death of her 

 lamented husband. 



Several places on the Gulf Coast were 

 inspected, as well as a number of points 

 inland. At St. Petersburg the protected 



