Hunting at High Altitudes 



which is printed with its report. It also announced 

 a declaration of the policy already carried out by 

 the Club, and to be continued. This is that the 

 club should "concentrate its efforts upon projects 

 directly and indirectly concerned with the preser- 

 vation of big game, while on questions concerning 

 birds and fish the name and influence of the Club" 

 should be used to further worthy movements, but 

 that steps to inaugurate such movements should be 

 left to others. The report discussed some pending 

 Federal legislation and the game situation, in- 

 cluding in this last some fur-bearing and almost 

 extinct mammals. 



At the very close of the year, after much cor- 

 respondence with the Secretary of the Interior and 

 Colonel then Major Brett, about twenty ante- 

 lope were trapped in the Yellowstone National 

 Park, of which half were sent to the National 

 Bison Range in Montana, and half to the Wichita 

 Game Preserve. Through lack of experience on 

 the part of those who crated the animals, the crates 

 were made too roomy, with the unfortunate result 

 that a number of the antelope injured themselves 

 in transit and died. Nevertheless six or seven 

 reached the Montana range in fair condition, and 

 eight the Wichita reserve. In May, 1913, there 

 were five antelope living and in good condition on 



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