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On February 25th, 1914, Mr. N. W. McMillen, of Cazadero, 

 caught a large, black timber wolf near Three Links camp on the 

 Clackamas River, twenty-four miles above Cazadero. In making 

 a set for this wolf, Mr. McMillen tied the body of a rabbit about 

 six feet up in a fir tree and placed two traps close together under 

 it. One of these traps was well concealed, while the other was left 

 partially exposed, and, of course, the concealed trap was the one 

 that caught the wolf. The bait was hung in such a way that the 

 wolf in jumping at it would cause it to swing in the air, thereby 

 making it difficult for him to get a firm hold. Number 14 

 off -set jaw Newhouse traps were used. On March 16th a large 

 female wolf was caught in the same trap, at the same set and with 

 the same bait. The first wolf was a male, and this was probably 

 a pair that had been hunting in that locality. Mr. McMillen esti- 

 mates that there are about a dozen wolves that range over the 

 territory in the vicinity of his winter camp, about twenty-five 

 miles above Cazadero on the Clackamas River. During the winter 

 he found the remains of a deer that had evidently been killed by 

 wolves. The meat was entirely gone, nothing remaining but the 

 bones and hide. 



Mr. W. L. Tison and brother, who live ten miles above Tiller, 

 on Elk Creek, poisoned three wolves on February 15th. A band 

 of wolves had killed about a dozen goats belonging to Mr. Jaques. 

 Some of the meat was not eaten and this was poisoned with 

 strychnine. The wolves returned a few days later and ate the 

 meat. Mr. Tison and his brother followed the wolf tracks for 

 half a mile and found where three of the wolves had died. They 

 think there were two or three more wolves that got away. 



, The Northwestern timber wolf was first described by Town- 

 send in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania, in 1850, from a specimen killed near Van- 

 couver, Clarke County, Washington. There is a skull of one of 

 these wolves in the U. S. National Museum at Washington that 

 was taken from a wolf killed on the shores of Puget Sound a good 

 many years ago. This skull, so far as known, is the only specimen 

 of the Northwestern wolf in any museum outside of Oregon. 



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