56 American Fisheries Society 



Wednesday Evening Session, August 29th. 



The American Fisheries Society met in joint session with the 

 National Association of Fish and Game Commissioners, as the 

 guests of the Local Committee. A series of moving pictures, 

 showing the winter elk range in the Jackson's Hole country, 

 Wyoming, was presented by Mr. Norman McClintock and 

 explained by him. 



Mr. McClintock stated that the pictures were made by assist- 

 ance from Hon. George Shiras, 3d, of Washington, D. C, and the 

 United States Biological Survey. The photographs were taken 

 with a telophoto lens and a series made by the ordinary method 

 was shown to indicate the difference. The Jackson's Hole game 

 refuge was visited in February and involved a trip over the Teton 

 mountain range by sled from the railway terminus at Victory, 

 Wyoming, over six feet or more of snow. The elk were shown, 

 more than 3500 in one herd, at the winter feeding grounds where 

 hay is provided to keep them from starving to death. 



Other reels shown by Mr. McClintock illustrated a herd of 

 500 antelope in the Yellowstone National Park; also mule deer, 

 mountain sheep and the peculiar little aquatic bird known as the 

 water ouzel. 



Hon. M. L. Alexander introduced Mr. Stanley C. Arthur, 

 ornithologist of the Department of Conservation of Louisiana, 

 who presented a series of pictures illustrating ducks and geese in 

 winter time in Louisiana. Gulls were also shown on the reserves, 

 which are under the protection of the Federal Government and the 

 Audobon Society, in co-operation with the State of Louisiana. 



Mr. Alexander also introduced Mr. Marshall McLean, of the 

 New York Conservation Commission, who explained a series of 

 pictures showing the work of the Commission. These reels were 

 made to familiarize the people of New York State with the opera- 

 tions of the different branches of the State Commission. The 

 purpose of this, Mr. McLean explained was to educate the people 

 in conservation, in order that the Commission might have the full 

 support and sympathy of all classes of the people. 



The evening session was then adjourned. 



