gatioii of the antelope and sage grouse, be printed in 

 the next Annual Eeport of the Society, together with 

 a map, sho^Ying location of proposed reserve and route 

 traveled. 



The President presented the following resolution, 

 which was unanimously accepted. 



Resolved, That the American Bit^on Society hereby elects to 

 enter actively into a campaign to secure such Federal action as will 

 result in the creation of a bird preserve in tlie Southeastern corner 

 of Lake County, Oregon, Ix'tween the eastern sliore of Warner T/ake 

 and the Eastern and Southern boundary lines of Lake County; and 



Be it Further Resolved, That the Society hereby invites all 

 American game protective organizations that are active in Xational 

 movements to join the Bison Society in co-operating with tbe United 

 States Department of Agriculture for the creation and admini>tration 

 of the preserve referred to above. 



Dr. Field called the Society's attention to the 

 grave situation which confronted the elk herd in the 

 Yellowstone National Park. He stated that owing to 

 an unusually severe winter, the elk had l^een driven 

 from the mountains in search of food at a much earlier 

 period of the season than usual, and in greater numl)ers 

 than heretofore. The Government maintains a feeding 

 farm to take care of the four thousand elk that usually 

 gather there each winter, Imt this winter ten thousand 

 w^ere there now, and others coming in, and there was 

 no question but that the greater part of them w(»uld 

 die of starvation. The State farm ])ut up during the 

 year four hmiclred tons of hay and this was about gone. 

 He further stated that there was plenty of hay on the 

 ranches in the vicinity, but the owners were protecting 

 it from the elk and were asking from thirty to hfty 

 dollars a ton for it. The Government had made no 

 appropriations for Iniying hay, therefore the sittuition 

 was a most desperate one for the elk, as it would take 

 one thousand tons of hay to feed ten thousand elk, Init 

 if associations and patriotic citizens would furnisli the 

 funds, these elk could l)e saved, as there is at least 

 sixteen hundred tons of hay that can be bought at a 

 reasonable figure. 



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