Photo by Dr. George W. Field 
WICHITA NATIONAL HERD 
GENERAL VIEW OF THE RANGE FROM SURROUNDING HILLS 
Professor Elrod modeled his report to the Society on the 
Montana National Bison Range, was, by the authority 
of the Board of Managers, engaged to make the survey. _ 
Mr. Loring’s survey was made during July and 
August, during a season of extreme drought and therefore 
a season favorable for the study of grazing under con- 
ditions least favorable to animal life. Mr. Loring com- 
pleted his work at a cost within the appropriation and 
three copies of his report were received by the Committee 
in September. 
Mr. Loring’s report, which I reeommend be printed 
in full in the next annual report of the Society, indicates 
that he examined the lands on several reservations in the 
south and eastern part of the State, that he also examined 
the Black Hills reservation and the Wind Cave National 
Park. The latter he found to be a very desirable and an 
altogether practicable area to maintain a large herd of 
bison and herds of other large animals of the Rocky 
Mountain region. He recommended in his report that 
the Wind Cave National Park, comprising some 10,000 
acres belonging to the National Government, be made the 
nucleus of a Wind Cave National Game Preserve; that 
sufficient lands be added on the east, north and south of 
