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understanding that those operating within its limits should retain 

 their existing rights. This, as in the case of the proposed antelope 

 refuge in southeastern Oregon, accorded perfectly with the policy 

 of the Biological Survey and the desires of its cooperators inter- 

 ested in the project. 



Many antelope now exist within the limits of the proposed Owyhee 

 refuge, as well as mule deer and other interesting mammals, and 

 many sage hens. It is an ideal arid-region game refuge, offering 

 sage plains varied with groups of low mountains, where consider- 

 able numbers of game animals can be maintained without in any 

 way interfering with the grazing interests. 



The sympathetic interest shown by the stockmen in this area 

 indicates that if this refuge can be established it will give a fine 

 demonstration of the practicability of maintaining reasonable num- 

 bers of game along with the continued use of such an area for stock- 

 growing purposes. 



It can not be too of ten ' emphasized that it is not the policy of 

 the Biological Survey completely to exclude grazing from game 

 refuges except under very exceptional circumstances. This bureau 

 is convinced that wherever a large area is involved game can be 

 maintained there with stock without interfering with the legitimate 

 utilization of such area for economic purposes. 



It is hoped that with a better understanding of the purposes of 

 these refuges, which are mainly to put an end to hunting game 

 within their limits and to bring about a greater protection of game 

 in order that it may be maintained and increase for the benefit of 

 the surrounding region, the neighboring stockmen may come to 

 approve their establishment. It is to be appreciated that refuges 

 of this character should be formed in complete cooperation with 

 the stockmen if they are to be effective. 



RESTOCKING EXPERIMENTS, 1924 



After a visit to the Grand Canyon National Park in northern Ari- 

 zona, E. E. Brownell, of San Francisco, suggested in 1922 that the 

 plateau midway down the slope on the south side of the canyon 

 might well be utilized to establish a band of antelope. Following 

 this suggestion, an expert of the Biological Survey examined the 

 ground and found the project to be practicable. W. T. Hornaday, 

 of the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, also visited the Grand 

 Canyon and approved the establishment of an antelope herd there. 

 The outcome was that Doctor Brownell and Doctor Hornaday each 

 contributed a very considerable sum to a fund to cooperate with the 

 Biological Survey to carry out the project. 



At first it was planned to purchase the young antelope for re- 

 stocking purposes from Alberta, but later the Governor of Nevada, 

 in recognition of the cooperation of the Biological Survey in the 

 establishment of the State antelope refuges in the northern part of 

 the State, very generously granted a permit for the bureau to cap- 

 ture 40 antelope fawns on the Washoe State Game Eefuge. For- 

 tunately O. C. Wood, one of the predatory-animal hunters of the 

 Biological Survey, owned a ranch in the midst of the area occupied 

 by the great antelope herds of that region, which was an ideal place 



