192. Yellowstone Natl Park Fern Lakes with G.M.H. July 31, 1931 With one young were near the margin of the lake. The young one could not quite fly, but it could run very fast and hide effectively in the forest. The old birds would not fly far away as is their usual custom. One of them flew 4 mile away. The other played the same wing race within 100 yards of me, & kept running and calling. 6 elk, all bulls, were seen down in Pelican Creek Valley about 6:00 P.M. Elk trails were abundant everywhere. The remnant of the original wild herd of buffalo is supposed to be along Pelican Creek. We saw buffalo calves at least a year old, and some which might be of this spring. But the range is too close to the summer range of the main herd that we do not feel any certainty about a separate herd on Pelican. Ranger Allen Hanks reported & coyotes on Pelican Creek slightly southwest of the mouth of Hotstringent Creek in the morning just before we arrived.