MONTANA NATIONAL HERD 
“KALISPELL CHIEF,” LEADER OF THE MONTANA NATIONAL HERD, SEPT. 26, 1912 
zation concerned with matters of wild life preserva- 
tion in any of their aspects should take a hand in the 
general movement. He urged that the Bison Society 
so extend its activities. 
Mr. Madison Grant asserted that the main part of 
the work of the Society has been accomplished in the 
creation of large herds of bison under Government 
ownership; that small municipal collections are not 
important in the preservation of the species, and may 
well be left to their own development. In his opinion, 
the time is now at hand for the Society to take part 
in the general movement, especially with that phase 
of it which looks toward the restocking of the pre- 
serves with antelope and other disappearing species of 
big game. 
Dr. Palmer agreed to the pressing necessity for 
general work, but strongly urged the desirability of 
securing the establishment of local herds in the south, 
in view of the eventual founding of a Government herd 
in the National Appalachian Park. Such small local 
herds would be of educational value in arousing inter- 
est among the southern people in an animal with which 
most of them are not at all familiar. Dr. Palmer 
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