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with respect to snow prevented. The effort will be renewed 

 in the winter of 1920-21. 



Another attempt to extend the range of the moose is being 

 made in South Dakota. The State authorities have arranged 

 to exchange South Dakota buffalo for Wyoming moose. Under 

 this plan four moose from the Jackson Hole country will be 

 released in the State Game Park of lOO square miles in the 

 Black Hills, in the southwestern portion of South Dakota. An 

 unsuccessful effort to carry out this plan was made in the 

 winter of 1919-20. The effort will be repeated next winter. 



G. 



MOOSE IN PENNSYLVANIA 



In his Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (Phila- 

 delphia, 1903, pp. 224, 240), Samuel N. Rhoads states that 

 fossil remains of the "East American moose" have been found 

 in Durham cave, near Riegelsville, Bucks County, southeastern 

 Pennsylvania. 



In historic times moose are said to have been found in 

 northeastern Pennsylvania. Hollister, in his History of the 

 Lackawanna Valley (Philadelphia, 1885, p. 32), says that in 

 the vicinity of Capoose, an Indian village near the site of 

 Scranton, in the later years of the eighteenth century, "the 

 moose and elk stood among the pines or thundered through 

 them like the tread of cavalry." But the people of Penn- 

 sylvania often gave the name "gray moose" to the wapiti, and 

 references to the moose by early writers in that State are there- 

 fore to be accepted with caution. 



Moose Creek in Clearfield County, western Pennsylvania, 

 is said to have taken its name from Chinklacamoose, an Indian 

 village which stood on the site of Clearfield. Henry Gannett 

 ("Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States," in 

 Geological Survey Bulletin No. 258, page 214), interprets this 

 word as meaning "it almost joins," referring to a horseshoe 

 bend formed by the stream. Another authority suggests that 



