Feather Boyes Prairie, Prairie Creek State Park, 240 p. 16. 1935. Humboldt Co., Calif. (cont.) Oct. 9, 1935- Russell caught a water snake near where we entered Prairie Creek trail and we went on south. At the Swimming Hole we left the trail to walk back the highway to camp. A few hundred yards south of the Swimming Hole, on the edge of the highway, Russell and I found fresh tracks of a cow and calf elk. They had traveled north along the side of the highway 140 yards. The tracks indicated that they had become frightened and jumped into the brush. On the way to camp, we met Mr. Turner, the Park Custodian, and talked with him a few minutes. Among other irrelevant things he told us that a man he had known had shown him the head of a freshly killed bull elk about five years past and that he, Turner, had dug out the two canine teeth with his pocket knife. This occurred before his status as a law officer, he said. He then drove us the short distance to camp. After lunch at camp, we drove south on the highway 4 mi. to the Davion Ranch. We questioned him concerning the damage done on his ranch by elk. He produced a skeleton of a cow elk which he had gathered in the woods for us and then took us out to his carrot field. The carrot patch was about one acre in extent, fenced on one side. The