12 BULLETIN 1346, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE 
sota, J. F. Gould; Pennsylvania, the executive secretary, Seth E. 
Gordon. 
The interest of the Federal Government in the conservation of 
the pronghorn was shown by the presence of Senator Peter Nor- 
beck, of South Dakota, and by representation from the following- 
Federal bureaus: 
National Park Service, the director, Stephen T. Mather; Forest 
Service, W. C. Barnes and E. N. Kavanaugh; Coast and Geodetic 
Survey, the director, E. Lester Jones; and the Biological Survey, 
by the chief and several members of the staff. The Canadian 
K'ational Parks Service, at the request of J. B. Harkin, commis- 
sioner, was also represented, O. S. Finnie, director, Northwest Terri- 
tories Branch, Department of the Interior, being present. 
The results of the census which had been practically completed 
by the Biological Survey were presented. These are set forth with 
some additions elsewhere in this bulletin. 
From time to time during the past years the desirability has been 
suggested of organizing a national antelope society to foster the 
conservation of the pronghorn. In view of the fact that a number 
of the more important conservation organizations had already in- 
terested themselves and expended considerable money on projects 
for this purpose, it appeared to the conference that the organiza- 
tion of an additional conservation society would probably result 
in complications not beneficial to the cause and might really act 
as a deterrent to the development of much-needed activity to save 
these beautiful animals from extermination. It was agreed that 
the existing conservation organizations should continue to interest 
themselves in the conservation of the antelope as opportunity 
offered, and that whenever one organization should take up a specific 
project the others would actively cooperate in carrying it to a 
successful conclusion. 
It was further agreed that the Biological Survey should serve as 
a clearing house for information concerning the pronghorn, and 
that its cooperation should be utilized as fully as possible in this 
work. The location of the Biological Survey field men engaged 
in predatory-animal and rodent-control work in all of the States in 
which antelope still exist places this bureau in a specially favorable 
position to procure up-to-date information on the subject. To put 
this decision into definite form Marshall McLean proposed a reso- 
lution for the purpose of establishing continuity of interest and 
activity, which was unanimously adopted by the conference, as 
follows : 
That individuals and organizations represented here or others desiring to 
take part con^itute themselves a conference for the preservation of antelope 
with the object of cooperating Vvith the Biological Sui-vey to\hat end. 
After a discussion of many details and phases of the antelope 
situation and of matters connected with their conservation, T. Gilbert 
Pearson presented L. D. Frakes, owner of a cattle ranch near 
Warner Lake, and J. L. Lyon, owner of a sheep ranch near Lake- 
view, in southeastern Oregon, who came to the conference for the 
purpose of advocating the establishment pf an antelope and sage-hen 
refuge covering a large area in southeastern Oregon. They an- 
nounced that their ranches lie within the proposed refuge and that 
