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alders bordered by stout leafy stalks of hellebore. 
It was the favored home of mighty hemlocks, 
and white cedars, of the white-barked, silver, 
and lodge pole pines, the Douglas Spruce, of 
tamarack, fir, and Engleman’s spruce.” And 
again: ‘‘Now I am lying on a cliff of bright red 
were gorgeous enough along the trails we had 
rocks in a bed of ferns. We thought the flowers 
followed on previous days, but here we came 
into high sloping meadows which were surely 
the last word in wild flower gardens. Here were 
gentians adding their blue to that of the for¬ 
get-me-nots, and asters, and larkspur, of hair- 
bells and wild flax. And the yellow buttercups, 
and potentillas, as large as our buttercups, and 
columbine, and hawkweed, and golden-rod, paint 
brush, saxifrage and heather, rock-cress and 
heather, and almost everything you could dream 
of. Shooting stars here beside me are only two 
inches high. Here are real alpine firs, and 
spruces, at 'east fifty years old, yet they are only 
three feet in height, bowed down by the weight 
of the winter snows.” 
To make an outing trip more economical to 
those people who are unable to pay big prices 
for their sight-seeing, everything is being done 
to encourage men and women to take walking 
tours through the Park. Certainly, anyone walk¬ 
ing afoot, is the gainer by far, over any other 
manner of procedure; for in this manner the 
territory may be carefully covered, and none of 
the beauties missed. Being, more or less, inde¬ 
pendent, and accounting for himself to a large 
extent, he may stay as long as he desires, at 
any point, without molestation, or interruption. 
From the viewpoint of the pedestrian such a trip 
as this, aside from the railroad fare, is very eco¬ 
nomical, and I certainly recommend this; one 
may be able to suit himself. Naturally, he may 
combine with his outfit a trout rod, and he will 
have trout constantly with his meals, if he so 
chooses. For this purpose the so-called pack 
rod, or rod of many joints, may be included, to 
take up practically little, or no, room, in his out¬ 
fit. One will, then, carry a small balloon-silk 
shelter tent, blankets or sleeping bag, his frying 
pan, his canteen, coffee-pot, tin cups and spoons, 
and tin plates. It can easily be seen that where 
three, or four, men or women, get together on 
such a trip, the outfit may be greatly lightened, 
for only one large coffee-pot will be needed— 
and so forth. It has been recommended that if 
four persons take such a trip, that a pack horse 
be hired, at one dollar a day. This will be very 
economical, and will cost each person but twenty- 
five cents a day extra, and it will be a great con¬ 
venience all around; and, no doubt, a blessing. 
It is possible to tour the park well, at a cost of 
less than one dollar a day, each person. By the 
following table is shown that it may be done at 
a total of 87 cents per capita a day, which is 
very reasonable. This is designed for four 
people: BREAKFAST 
One loaf bread .$ .15 
Prunes .05 
Butter . 10 
One pound ham .30 
One can milk..10 
Breakfast Pood .;.15 
Coffee .10 
Pancakes .05 
Fish . 00 
Per capita, 25 cents. 
$1.00 
LUNCH 
Tea .05 
One can salmon.••.25 
One loaf bread.15 
Butter .10 
Cheese .15 
One can beans.20 
Gingersnaps.15 
Fish .00 
Per capita, 26 cents. 
DINNER 
One loaf bread.$ .15 
Butter .• ..15 
Ham .30 
One can peaches.30 
Coffee .10 
One can soup.. •.20 
Potatoes .10 
Salt, pepper, sugar, etc.10 
Fish .. •.00 
Per capita, 35 cents. $1.40 
Total, 87 cents per capita. 
It goes without saying that anyone attempting 
such a trip, as this, must have experience; or 
at least one or two members of the party must 
know how to go about things in the approved of 
fashion in camping-dom. One must consider that 
there is often an infinite amount of roughing to 
it; and anyone who has labored over mountain 
trails, knows what this means. If you are hunt¬ 
ing soft spots, do not walk a-foot through the 
park, carrying your own outfit. It may change 
your opinion of the park, from a rosy one, to 
one having a deep blue gloom. Such persons 
should always go light. Anything cumbersome, 
must not be included, for reasons only too ob¬ 
vious. The lighter, the better. If you wish to 
go into permanent camp, in some secluded val¬ 
ley, certainly this may be done; you may use 
your pack horse, at a dollar a day, to get in your 
stuff without inconvenience. Whether you are 
a business man, poet, writer, botanist, fisherman 
or laboring man, there is always recourse to this 
method of seeing the park. The Glacier Nation¬ 
al Park is no spouting geyser in the midst of a 
blaring sand-dune; but something that should 
go down in the history of definitions as the 
personification of the word: playground, or na¬ 
tional park. Two weeks in the preserve will 
brighten you up considerably, and some of the 
pictures you will adjust in the slips in your al¬ 
bum, and turn to look at in the cold winter even¬ 
ings before the fire, will content you greatly, 
and you will say: I don’t believe after all that 
the Great Northern is paying Robert Page Lin¬ 
coln to write those high-flute-ing articles in Forest 
and Stream! 
Notes On The Mammals of Minnesota 
For the last two summers an expedition out¬ 
fitted and financed by Mr. James Ford Bell, a 
well-known business man of Minneapolis, has 
been carrying on certain lines of natural history 
work in the wilds of northern Minnesota, among 
other things accumulating specimens and mate¬ 
rials for the classes in natural history at the 
University and for the museum. For the many 
interested in this particular group of vertebrates, 
I present herewith a list, with notes, of the mam¬ 
mals collected and observed by the expedition 
thus far. 
The territory covered to date lies in the north 
central part of Lake County and is included in 
the Superior National Forest Reserve. The 
accompanying map shows the location of the 
principal camps at which the party was stationed 
at different times, and the localities where each 
species of mammal was collected or observed. 
Erithizon dorsatum (Linn.). Canada porcu¬ 
pine. —-The porcupine was found very common. 
Most of those seen were observed feeding along 
the lake shores and the streams, where water- 
lily pads and rhizomes that had been pulled up 
by moose seemed to be the principal food sought. 
Females accompanied by one or two young, 
then about half-grown, were frequently found 
in such places. Any extensive destructive work 
of the porcupine was not observed, but several 
pines were seen in the course of our excursions 
which had been denuded of their bark, wholly 
or in part, by the porcupine tooth. Our camps 
were at no time molested by these animals al¬ 
though they were at times left unguarded for a 
number of days and nights at a time, in localities 
where porcupines were regularly seen. 
Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord). Meadow- 
mouse. —Judged by the numbers which came into 
our traps, the meadow-mouse is far from com¬ 
mon in this territory. During the first sum¬ 
mer’s work, only four specimens were taken, all 
males; and during four weeks of trapping this 
last summer, no specimens of this species were 
obtained. The four specimens collected were 
trapped at widely separated localities, so that 
the species appears to be distributed, though 
sparsely, throughout the region investigated. As 
trapping was continued in these localities often 
for many days, and a variety of other places, 
including favorable-looking meadows bordering 
some of the streams, were tried, all without re¬ 
sults, I believe that the meadow-mouse is ac¬ 
tually not very common. 
Evotomys gapperi (Vigors). Red-backed vole 
or gapper-mouse. —This little rodent appears to 
be decidedly the most abundant mammal of this 
region. It seemed somewhat less numerous this 
last summer, however, than the preceding sea¬ 
son- No locality seemed quite free from these 
mice and they were taken with great regularity 
in dark damp woods, on the dry wooded hill¬ 
sides and along marsh-bordered streams. 
Occasionally the gapper-mouse was seen dur¬ 
ing the day-time, even on bright sunny days, 
moving stealthily about among the leaves or 
scurrying along a short but well-beaten runway 
from one burrow entrance to the next. The 
species has been said by some naturalists to be 
chiefly diurnal, by others to be both diurnal and 
nocturnal. That it ventures forth in day-time 
occasionally, is certain, at least in this part of 
its range, but I believe that it is only to a limit¬ 
ed extent, never going far afield. In the night 
it comes out in force. This was abundantly 
proved by the results of our trapping. During 
