Field notes, v672
Page 205
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Feather Boyes Prairie Prairie Creek State Park, 240 ft., N. 1935. Humboldt Co., Calif. (cont.) Oct. 6, 1935. Cattle were pastured over all this land. No fresh elk sign was seen but Russell found the skull and parts of the skeleton of a young cow elk. This was found in a bedding ground under stunted sitha spruce. We climbed down the steeply sloping hillside to the ocean and returned to the truck via the beach. The caretaker at the Cruthers place told us of finding the head and entrails of a bull elk some time ago on the beach 3 miles south of the Del Norte-Humboldt Co. line. He said that appearances indicated that some one had hauled the meat away with a wagon. We drove back to camp and had lunch. In the early afternoon, Russell and I walked east of camp on the "Indian Trail" to the eastern boundary of the Boyes ranch. There, on two redwood logs which lay side by side, serving as a fence, we saw hoof marks showing where elk had jumped over into the cultivated field! At this time there was no crop growing and there were no fresh tracks of elk in the soft earth. The hoof marks on the redwood logs were quite evidently those of elk, in some cases the complete print of the hoof