Current Station Notes 501 



for the Ecological Society of America and the American Society 

 of Mammalogists. 



Papers or addresses were read at the Washington Conference Ijy 

 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Frank M. Chapman, Dean Franklin 

 Moon, Mr. Chauncey J. Hamlin, and the Director of this Station. 



In the Permanent Organization, which was an outgrowth of ihe 

 President's Conference, the following Station members are included 

 on the President's Committee : Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, and Mr. 

 Chauncey J- Hamlin, Chairman of the Conference. Mr. Hamlin is 

 also a member of the Executive Committee, as is also Dr. George 

 Shiras, 3rd. Other members of the Advisory Council of the Con- 

 ference are Dr. Frank M. Chapman, Dean Henry S. Graves, Dr. 

 George Bird Grimiell, Mr. Chauncey J. Hamlin, Dr. George Shiras, 

 3rd, and Dean Franklin Moon. 



THE SUMMER FIELD PARTIES 



During the past summer field season ( 1924) the Roosevelt Sta- 

 tion field parties have been engaged in investigations on wild life 

 in New York State. Dr. Charles E. Johnson, who made the earlier 

 survey of the Adirondack beaver (Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin- 

 Vol. I, No. 2), has continued this study, making a complete circuit 

 of the region. Mr. Bradford A. Scudder devoted the season to a 

 preliminary study of the status of Adirondack deer. This seems 

 to be the first study of this character to be undertaken. These men 

 were assisted by an able volunteer assistant, Mr. Julius M. Johnson. 

 Dr. Alfred O. Gross has devoted his attention to an intensive study 

 of the Ruffed Grouse in the lower Hudson Valley. Reports are now 

 in preparation on the results of these studies. Dr. W. C. Kendall 

 and Mr. W. A. Dence extended their studies of Adirondack trout. 



The Director of the Station spent July, August and September 

 visiting the National Forests and National Parks of the Southwest 

 and on the Pacific Coast. He visited the District Forest offices at 

 Albuquerque, San Francisco, Ogden and Denver, as well as the 

 Southwestern Forest Experiment Station, the Great Basin Range 

 Experiment Station, and the Fremont Forest Experiment Station. 

 Special attention was given to seeing as much of field conditions as 

 time permitted, with particular reference to wild life, research, graz- 

 ing, recreation, and general Forest and National Park policies. 



The National Forests visited were Carson, Coconino, Tusayan, 

 Kaibab, Sequoia. Stanislaus, Sierra, Wasatch, Manti, and Fremont, 

 and the National Parks were the Grand Canyon, Sequoia, and the 



