12 BULLETIN 1346, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE, 



sota, J. F. Gould; Pennsylvania, the executive secretary, Seth E. 

 Gordon. 



The interest of the Federal Government in the conservation of 

 the pronghorn was shown by the presence of Senator Peter Nor- 

 beck, of South Dakota, and by representation from the following 

 Federal bureaus: 



National Park Service, the director, Stephen T. Mather; Forest 

 Service, W. C. Barnes and E. 1ST. Kavanaugh; Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, the director, E. Lester Jones; and the Biological Survey, 

 by the chief and several members of the staff. The Canadian 

 National Parks Service, at the request of J. B. Harkin, commis- 

 sioner, was also represented, O. S. Finnie, director, Northwest Terri- 

 tories Branch, Department of the Interior, being present. 



The results of the census which had been practically completed 

 by the Biological Survey were presented. These are set forth with 

 some additions elsewhere in this bulletin. 



From time to time during the past years the desirability has been 

 suggested of organizing a national antelope society to foster the 

 conservation of the pronghorn. In view of the fact that a number 

 of the more important conservation organizations had already in- 

 terested themselves and expended considerable money on projects 

 for this purpose, it appeared to the conference that the organiza- 

 tion of an additional conservation society would probably result 

 in complications not beneficial to the cause and might really act 

 as a deterrent to the development of much-needed activity to save 

 these beautiful animals from extermination. It was agreed that 

 the existing conservation organizations should continue to interest 

 themselves in the conservation of the antelope as opportunity 

 offered, and that whenever one organization should take up a specific 

 project the others would actively cooperate in carrying it to a 

 successful conclusion. 



It was further agreed that the Biological Survey should serve as 

 a clearing house for information concerning the pronghorn, and 

 that its cooperation should be utilized as fully as possible in this 

 work. The location of the Biological Survey field men engaged 

 in predatory-animal and rodent-control work in all of the States in 

 which antelope still exist places this bureau in a specially favorable 

 position to procure up-to-date information on the subject. To put 

 this decision into definite form Marshall McLean proposed a reso- 

 lution for the purpose of establishing continuity of interest and 

 activity, which was unanimously adopted by the conference, as 

 follows : 



That individuals and organizations represented here or others desiring to 

 take part constitute themselves a conference for the preservation of antelope 

 with the object of cooperating with the Biological Survey to that end. 



After a discussion of many details and phases of the antelope 

 situation and of matters connected with their conservation, T. Gilbert 

 Pearson presented L. D. Frakes, owner of a cattle ranch near 

 Warner Lake, and J. L. Lyon, owner of a sheep ranch near Lake- 

 view, in southeastern Oregon, who came to the conference for the 

 purpose of advocating the establishment of an antelope and sage-hen 

 refuge covering a large area in southeastern Oregon. They an- 

 nounced that their ranches lie within the proposed refuge and that 



