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Feathers
1935.
Boyes Prairie, Prairie Creek State Park,
240 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.
Oct. 4, 1935.
Mr. W. C. Russell and the writer, D. G.
Feathers, left Berkeley at 7:30 A.M.,
having as a destination the Prairie Creek
State Park in Humboldt Co., Calif. The
object of the trip was to make a survey
of Cervus roosevelti in and about the
Park and to submit a report on the present
status of the elk.
Travelling via Napa, St. Helena, Geyserville
and the Redwood Highway, we reached the
Park at 7:30 P.M. The custodian of the
Park was absent, but we were directed to
a cabin by another party -
Oct. 5, 1935.
In the morning we met Mr. J. G. Meier,
Technical Expert for the E.C.W., Dept. of the
Interior. In response to our questions
concerning the elk, he stated that there
were considerable number of them in and
about the Park. He mentioned that a
bull elk had been found shot on the beach
near Gold Bluffs and that a hindquarter
had been cut from the carcass. To
his knowledge all attempts at making
an arrest for the shooting of the elk
had failed. Another elk had been