Carr Creek Lake Thursday July 4. Spent the forenoon in the marsh near Camp when I found hundreds of ducks with goslings and many other birds nesting. Found many corts nest mostly just hatching about noon. Saw seven drum out to the ranch. They were Edward Headden of Colwell Idaho and W.F. Schnabel formerly marshal at Mungle. Schnabel was for years until about 1938 a resident of this valley. He tells me that the wind was Mt. Sheek on all the higher hills in this region especially between here and the Evergreen, and that they periodically travels over in about 1905. He thinks owing to some decrease, as many deer one now found. In those days the snow Mountain antelope all about; now a band I seen a reported stones to the Dahogany Mt. near. Schnabel says that the Indians told him that buffalos used to be in the valley and that he afterward found their bones, including a whole Skeleton. In the country to the southwest then. He says that he has seen whitetailed deer on Locher Creek in Idaho. About 25 years ago Schnabel says that he roped and killed a Cinnamon bear on Carr Creek about 60 miles above here. It is the only bear he has ever heard being killed in this region.