CONTENTS 



PAGE 



1. The Relation of Wild Life to the Public in National and 



State Parks Dr. Charles C. Adams. 371 



2. The Big Game Animals of Yellowstone National Park. 



Mr. Edmund Heller. 405 



3. The Food of Trout in Yellowstone National Park. 



Dr. Richard A. Muttkowski. 471 - 



4. Current Station Notes The Director and Editor. 499 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATES 



Plate 25. A Black Bear Family in the Yellowstone Park (Drawing 



by Edmund J. Sawyer) Facing 371 



Plate 26. The Grizzly, or Silvertip, of the Yellowstone Wilder- 

 ness (Drawing by Edmund J. Sawyer) Facing 405 



FIGURES 



Figure 46. The Old Canyon Ranger Station. This was replaced in 1922 

 by a commodious log building combining the ranger head- 

 quarters with a tourist recreation hall. Photo by Edmund 

 Heller, 192 1 407 



Figure 47. A " Snowshoe Cabin " for winter ranger patrol, near the Park 

 boundary on Upper Yellowstone River, in the heart of the best 

 moose country. Secretary of the Interior Fall and party, 

 September, 1921. Peaks of " The Trident " in background. 

 Photo by Edmund Heller 407 



Figure 48. Chief Ranger Woodring starting on a trip of inspection to the 

 station at Hellroaring Creek on the range of the northern elk 

 herd. Photo by Edmund Heller, 192 1 408 



Figure 49. Some of the men on the permanent ranger staff. These are the 

 hardy mountaineers who guard the big game animals of the 

 Yellowstone and make the lonely winter patrols of the Park 

 boundaries. Photo by Edmund Heller, 1921 408 



Figure 50. A two-year-old " cinnamon " at Camp Roosevelt, Yellowstone 

 Park. The black bears clamber up the trees with the agility 

 of a cat, but adult grizzlies are unable to climb, and their 

 cubs rarely do so. Photo by Edmund Heller, 192 1 411 



Figure 51. A game of hide and seek. The author hiding from a " cinnamon" 

 bear at Camp Roosevelt. The brown or cinnamon bear is 

 merely a color phase of the black bear. Photo by Hilda 

 Hempl Heller, 192 1 41 1 



Figure 52. A mother black bear and cub dining on garbage " a la carte." 

 Many bears live in the vicinity of the camps and hotels during 

 the summer as a result of protection, and feed daily at the 

 refuse dumps. Photo by Edmund Heller, 192 1 412 



Figure 53. Young bears stalking the caretaker's cabin at Camp Roosevelt. 

 Note the barbed wire entanglement on roof of log storehouse. 

 In the fall, just before hibernating, both black bears and 

 grizzlies frequently break in where food is stored. Photo by 

 Edmund Heller, 1921 412 



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