The Game Preservation Committee 



the Montana Bison Range, and on the Wichita 

 reserve, two a male and a female are alive and 

 seemingly doing well. 



Colonel Brett was kind enough to write out for 

 the benefit of the Club a detailed report of the 

 method by which these antelope were captured. 



The Game Preservation Committee appointed 

 for the year 1912 consisted of Chas. Sheldon, 

 Chairman ; Chas. H. Townsend, Secretary ; J. Wal- 

 ter Wood, W. Redmond Cross, Edward Hubert 

 Litchfield, E. W. Nelson, Alexander Lambert, 

 M.D., with Geo. Bird Grinnell and Dr. Lewis 

 Rutherfurd Morris as advisory members. The 

 Committee's report for the year was submitted at 

 the annual meeting, January, 1913, and accepted 

 by the Club. As usual, it dealt with the work of 

 the year, with some pending legislation dealing 

 with migratory birds, and the fur seal, and with 

 the game situation. While the reports as to the 

 condition of the antelope are discouraging it 

 being concluded that the species, although every- 

 where protected in the United States, is every- 

 where diminishing the news with relation to the 

 wild sheep is more cheering. Many more mountain 

 sheep exist in the United States than is generally 

 known, though a variety of conditions tend con- 

 stantly to reduce their numbers. Two or three 



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