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2. This area covers the Smoke Creek antelope refuge of Washoe County, 

 south of the main Washoe County refuge. Mr. Sans 'wrote : 



" From reliable information I learn there are about 1,000 antelope ranging 

 from Willow Creek, northeast of Susanville, in California, to Smoke Creek, in 

 Nevada. The larger part of these appear to range in Secret Valley and the 

 tablelands in Nevada to the railroad to Amadee and B.avendale, Calif., on the 

 north." 



These herds include those recorded for Lassen County, Calif., and those which 

 remain permanently in Nevada. On account of the uncertainty as to the exact 

 number in Nevada, they have been placed at 200 animals, although at present 

 they must exceed 1,000, owing to the California herds having temporarily entered 

 this area, as set forth in the account of the California antelope. 



3. About 40 antelope are reported to range on the Santa Rosa State Recre- 

 ation Ground and Game Refuge in eastern Humboldt County. 



4. Various bands, aggregating about 1,000 antelope, are reported to occupy 

 this area, which includes the Humboldt State Recreation Ground and Game 

 Refuge, in Elko and Humboldt Counties. This area is the southern extension 

 of the Owyhee Desert from across the boundary in Idaho. Some of the 

 antelope range back and forth across the Idaho line. These bands are said 

 to be holding their own, if not increasing. 



5. This area contains bands numbering, respectively, 29, 43, 71, and 70, by 

 actual counts, ranging on Nine Mile Flat, 16 miles east of Contact and be- 

 tween the Bad Lands and Loomis Creek, in Humboldt County. These 213 

 are said to have increased from 20 during the last seven years. 



6. A band of about 10 ranges near Cobre, in Elko County. 



7. This area covers the White Pine State Recreation Ground and Game 

 Refuge (No. 12), in White Pine and Elko Counties. A band of 40 antelope is 

 reported to be ranging there. 



8. A band of about 75 ranges in Duck Valley, from Geyser to Pioche, in 

 Lincoln County. 



9. This area includes the Grant State Recreation Ground and Game Re- 

 fuge (No. 4) in Nye County. Several small bands of antelope, estimated to 

 aggregate from 35 to 65 animals, are said to range within this area in 

 Railroad Valley. 



10. A band estimated at 100 was seen during the spring of 1923 near White 

 Blotch, Lincoln County, and in the adjacent parts of Nye County. 



11. A band of 25 is reported to range in Wild Horse Valley, southern Nye 

 County. 



NEW MEXICO 



Antelope in New Mexico are decreasing, but up to the fall of 1923 they were 

 still found in 31 areas, with an estimated total of 1,682 survivors from the vast 

 herds which once occupied this region. Details concerning their numbers and 

 distribution in this State set forth below are largely the result of careful in- 

 vestigations made to March 1, 1924, by L. C. Petree, chief deputy in the State 

 department of game and fish. In addition information has been supplied by 

 employees of the Forest Service and of the Biological Survey and by individuals 

 in the State. District Forester Frank C. W. Pooler, of Albuquerque, submits 

 some interesting ideas on antelope conservation, as follows : 



" I imagine everybody agrees that the nucleus of any scheme should include 

 several Federal game preserves covering herds like the one proposed in adja- 

 cent parts of Oregon and Nevada. Such preserves, however, can not go fur- 

 ther than to serve as a kind of rock-bottom insurance against total disappear- 

 ance. The big problem is to secure an effective care of the scattered herds 

 running on all kinds of land under all kinds of jurisdictions. 



" Could not the Biological Survey be designated by the proposed convention 

 as the central agency to perform the following steps with respect to each 

 herd for which there appears to be a reasonable chance of perpetuation : 



"(1) Determine the number, range, and condition of the herd. 



"(2) Assign custodianship of the herd to some one party. This might be 

 the Forest Service, the State game department, some stockman, or possibly 

 some game protective association. 



