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Transcription
A.C.Bicker
1957
Centaurus canaogensis
x300 ft.
End Vanney Grass Sho T.14N R.4E Sec.23 De Morte Clam
Nov.23
None seen but Mr. Lambert (see January)
told us there used to be 3 in Front
Vanney - with a meadow + row about
three
miles up the road from our camp -
but now only 1 large male remains,
this one apparently was seen where the
domestic cattle grazing in this meadow
and had a rather set of antlers. Lambert
said he poked the ground & used his
antler - or the front spikes - to throw
a large branch from the ground out
of his way. He thought these were
"Native" elk + not the smaller "introduced
elk from further south" whatever that
means.