Koford 1954 Prairie Dog Ecology Project Journal T August 12, 1954 Berkeley to Salt Lake City, Utah At request of Mr. Fairfield Osborn, President of N.Y. Zoological Society, I am traveling to Moore, Wyoming, where he is temporarily staying, to talk with him about the objectives and extent of a project to study the prairie dog in association with Kansas University. At 6:25 p.m., I departed from Oakland Airport on U.A.L. plane, for Salt Lake City. Flight path passed over Donner Pass, Donner Lake, in Calif. Arrived S.L.C. airport, about 3 mi. from city, at 9:30 p.m. Stayed at Newbarns Hotel. August 13, 1954. Friday. Overcast, with a few drops of rain at 6:30 a.m. To airport to leave on Western A.L. (for Jackson via Idaho Falls) at 7:10 a.m. Plane stopped at Pocatello, a rather flat dry grass region, then at Idaho Falls—the latter green with many wheat farms. Then by another plane to Jackson, Wyo., flying low over the rugged Teton Range. A little dirty snow remained. I was met at airport by Osborn and his wife. We did various errands in Jackson and had cocktails and lunch there. Osborn is trying to organize a project for me that is not just a study of prairie dogs and which is not necessarily connected with Kansas Univ. The money should be spent for conservation of wildlife. Osborn himself is keen for ecological projects. He has a personal strong interest in prairie dogs from boyhood experience. He would like to see a study made that could be ammunition to use against killing of animals