Photo by Dr. Geor 
WICHITA NATIONAL HERD 
COWS AND CALVES 
State auspices. On January 11, 1912, the Niobrara 
Bird Reservation was created by Executive Order. This 
reservation comprises some 10,000 or 12,000 acres of land 
on the Niobrara River, near Valentine, including some 
grazing land, and only needs a fence to make it an ideal 
reservation for buffalo and other big game of the Great 
Plains. 
The committee calls attention to the importance of 
having some small herds of buffalo established under 
municipal auspices in certain sections of the country 
where it is impracticable at present to locate State herds. 
It is believed that this can be accomplished through local 
enterprise with little or no cost to the Society beyond 
the effort necessary to arouse chambers of commerce 
or other local organizations to undertake the necessary 
action. The present distribution of buffalo shows 
that a block of eleven States in the Southeast, compris- 
ing all those south of the Potomac and the Ohio, and 
east of the Mississippi rivers, including Virginia, West 
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and 
also Louisiana, are without a single live buffalo in either 
city or private park. There is no place in these eleven 
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