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of a tract of land for a winter elk refuge in 
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, authorized by act of 
March 4, 1913, but title to the land has not yet 
been secured. 
Niobrara Game Reservation. Conditions on 
the Niobrara Reservation, Nebraska, have been 
exceptionally favorable, and all the animals are 
in good condition. The reservation continues to 
be an attraction to citizens of the State, as is 
evidenced by the large number of visitors. The 
37 animals now on the reservation include ten 
buffalo, twenty-three elk and four deer. Since 
their arrival there has been an increase of two 
buffalo, seven elk and one deer. The only loss 
so far reported was that of a young elk, which 
died during the winter. The additional deer was 
purchased from the park department of Council 
Bluffs, Iowa. 
Wild Cave Game Preserve. Through co¬ 
operation of the American Bison Society, four¬ 
teen buffalo, seven males and seven females, 
donated by the New York Zoological Park, were 
successfully shipped by express on November 
2 5 > I9t3, to the Wild Cave Preserve, near Hot 
Springs, S. Dak. Sufficient land has been ac¬ 
quired and added to the preserve to insure a 
permanent water supply. With the twenty-one 
elk transferred from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 
and a deer recently purchased, there are now 36 
animals on the preserve. Contracts have been 
let for the construction of a strong woven-wire 
fence, 88 inches in height and 8.67 miles in 
length, to inclose 4,160 acres of the preserve. 
As a result of the unusually mild winter in 
the Jackson Hole region in Wyoming, the migra¬ 
tion of elk to the feeding grounds was not large. 
Feeding the elk began January 30th and ended 
March 28th, with a total of 6,150 elk fed. Two 
hundred and forty-one elk were captured in 
Jackson Hole for distribution to National and 
State game reservations. Fifty head were dis¬ 
tributed in the National Forests in Colorado; 46 
in the National Forests in Utah; 23 to the newly 
created State preserve in Custer county, S. Dak.; 
and 21 to the Wind Cave game preserve near 
Hot Springs, S. Dak. 
Reports indicate that there were but slight win¬ 
ter losses among the elk not fed. 
Iu co-operation wth the Department of Interior 
and Treasury, the project of stocking the rein¬ 
deer part of the Aleutian Islands Reservation 
was begun in the Summer of 1913. Owing to 
very rough weather, a number of reindeer aboard 
the Manning, which left Portage Bay with 65, re¬ 
fused to eat. As a result, eight died. It was 
therefore determined to place a herd of 21 on 
Dutch Harbor Island and to land the remaining 
36 head at Umnak. 
DEER AND RABBITS MUST GO. 
Jersey Too Densely Populated and Hunters 
Cause Fires, Says Board. 
Trenton, Dec. 17. 
Virtual extermination of deer and rabbits in 
New Jersey is planned by the state forestry com¬ 
mission as the only effective means of protecting 
the state woodlands against forest fires such as 
destroyed nearly $200,000 worth of property dur¬ 
ing the first two weeks of the present gunning 
season. 
The argument advanced by the forestry com¬ 
mission is, that New Jersey is becoming too 
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densely populated to make it much longer avail¬ 
able as a game refuge. As the commission holds 
that the presence of gunners in the field in large 
number is principally responsible for forest fires, 
the members contend that the state should de¬ 
vote its efforts to savings its forests, even at the 
expense of its game. 
That the action of the forestry commission will 
stir up the opposition of most of the 70,000 hunt¬ 
ers with which New Jersey is credited seems al¬ 
most certain. On the other hand farmers who 
claim that their crops are destroyed by deer and 
rabbits may line up on the other side and make 
the fight an interesting one. 
Trenton, Dec. 22, 1914. 
Dear Mr. Beecroft: 
1 have your letter of Dec. 18th, and in reply 
to the same would say that the Fish and Game 
Commission will strongly oppose any measures 
looking to the removal of protection from rabbits 
and deer. There is no proof whatever that the re¬ 
cent forest fires were started by gunners. In 
fact we are very certain that the railroads were 
responsible for a number of them. I personally 
do not believe that any law looking to the exter¬ 
mination of deer and rabbits will be passed by the 
next Legislature. 
ERNEST NAPIER, President. 
State of New Jersey Fish and Game Commis¬ 
sioners. 
THE NEW QUEBEC GAME REGION. 
One Who Has Been There Advises What Por¬ 
tions to Avoid-Indians Killing Off Game. 
Hanover, Pa-, Dec. 21, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I was much interested in several articles lately 
published in Forest and Stream relative to the 
new North, or properly, the new country opened 
by the Transcontinental road in northern Quebec. 
With reference to this new big game country 
which, to some extent, has been exploited, I 
want to sound a word of warning to prospective 
hunters for the coming year. 
“All that glitters is not gold,” neither is all of 
this north country a game paradise—not any 
more. 
The country is virgin enough, but the section 
north of the Abitibi Lake, fifteen to twenty 
miles north from steel, has been hunted, and 
well hunted at that. 
With a companion and two Indan guides I 
spent two weeks northeast from White Fish in 
October, and no matter where we went, we found 
evidences of the country having been recently 
hunted. All good camp sites held their tepee 
poles and recent beds. Before leaving the rail¬ 
road a Hudson’s Bay man informed me that the 
A'bitibi Post Indians had already killed seventy 
or more moose and that at that time, October 
13th, most of them were out hunting meat. 
The Hudson’s Bay Company have not and will 
not advance outfits nor extend credit to any of 
their Indians this year and have instructed all of 
them to hunt meat this winter. 
It simply means, that you must get at least 
fifty to seventy-five miles from any Hudson’s 
Bay Post in the future. 
They tell you that there are no deer in the 
north Abitibi country, very few bear, caribou 
being so infrequent, that they tell you there are 
none. 
I went east eighty-six miles from Cochrane to 
White Fish River. The time limit prevented me 
from going north on the river, which route en¬ 
tails an eleven mile portage into Turgeon River 
waters, so was compelled to choose the south 
course from the track to the mouth of the river, 
then across the northeast area of Abitibi Lake 
to Fish River, then north about fifteen miles, 
hunting this country north by canoe and over¬ 
land with results as mentioned. 
The Bell River region farther east on the 
line; seems the ideal country, easy to reach from 
east or west, and with very little portaging north 
from steel. The country is virgin and, from the 
best information at hand, contains moose and 
bear in plenty. This section will be well opened 
in 1915* will contain good new hunting camps 
and guides and should surely appeal to the man 
in search of a good head. 
A trip north from steel on the Harricanaw 
River—midway from White Fish and Bell River 
—while it entails numerous portages—opens 
magnificent big game country, and I am told, the 
small lakes contiguous and the tributary streams, 
contain all kinds of trout. 
It is, all of it, surely great and virgin country, 
But yet away from steel and particularly, from 
any Hudson’s Bay Post. 
J. A. MELSHEIMER. 
AN OLD CONTRIBUTOR IN PRINT. 
Forest and Stream acknowledges with pleasure 
the receipt of a handsome booklet “Wild West¬ 
ern Scenes” by C. L. Stratton of Chattanooga, 
Tenn. Mr. Stratton states as his “excuse,”—al¬ 
though the book needs no apology or excuse of 
any nature—that the articles were written for 
and published by Forest and Stream and have 
been reproduced mainly for the purpose of pre¬ 
serving some scenes and incidents of happy 
memory. This purpose has been well accom¬ 
plished and the stories in the book are as inter¬ 
esting, and some of them more interesting now, 
than when first written. Mr. Stratton has been a 
Forest and Stream contributor for many years 
and thousands of readers still recall with pleas¬ 
ure some of the exquisite little things he has pub¬ 
lished in these columns. The pamphlet is for 
private distribution and bears no price mark, but 
it deserves a wider circulation than intended by 
the author. 
THE CALL OF THE WOODS. 
By James B. Carrington. 
O, take me away from the town to-day, 
For it’s dull and dreary and stale and gray, 
And I hear afar the murmur of trees, 
The music of waters afloat on the breeze. 
Let me drift once more in the old canoe, 
Where the skies are pure and the stars are true, 
Where the wood folk stare at the camp-fires 
glow, 
And the trout leap high in the pools below. 
Away from the noise and hurry and strife, 
Away where the pines are the breath of life, 
Where the blue hills dream in the fading light, 
And the loon’s wild cry echoes down the night. 
