and the Wind Cave Game Preserve, So. Dakota, from 

 Alberta. From time to time tlie necessity of additional 

 protection to save the species was voiced bv Dr. H. F. 

 Osborne, Dr. W. T. Hornaday, Prof. F. W. Hooper, 

 and other officers and members of the American Bison 

 Society, by the Staff of the U. S. Biological Snrvey, 

 the Federal Departments of the Interior and of Agri- 

 cnlture, and by well-informed and progressive State 

 Game Commissioners, individnals and organizations. 

 Under the auspices of the Fourth National Park Con- 

 ference, Col. E. Lester Jones in January, 1917, made a 

 public address, in which he suggested a reservation in 

 Lake County, Oregon, as a National Park and National 

 Reservation. The present suggested area includes that 

 visited l)y Col. Jones, and in addition Avould make pro- 

 vision for a genuine game or park preserve, for con- 

 serving the sage grouse and other native ground nesting 

 birds characteristic of the Oregon desert, also the 

 antelope, mule deer, and by restoration, the mountain 

 sheep. The actual area of public land involved is not as 

 large as appears, as there are perhaps several home- 

 steaders and certain land grants and homestead entries. 

 Some of these have been abandoned as of little practical 

 value as homesteads now that the wild game is no 

 longer available in large quantities. It has been said 

 that on account of the rim rock, exposed lava, etc., and 

 the general bad character of the land the entire area in 

 the aggregate does not produce economically as much 

 pasturage for stock as 100 acres of good^farm land, 

 favorablv located. 



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