Field journal, v4159
Page 883
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Transcription
468 Tompson Quinault April 28, 1934. fisherman, who said he had worked there for several years told us that from 150-180 bulls were shot there last fall. Whether he was referring to unofficial & un- calculated killing or whether his figures were wrong we do not know. He also said that herds totaling several hundred were always to be found in the burnt over area along the Humptulips in fall or winter, and that the bulls were higher in the timber. Fulton said elk were common on all the main drainages of his district; that they wintered down in the river bottoms and summered up even to timberline in the monument. Trappers he indicated, had in past years taken fisher, mink, martin, all around the higher country around the edges of the monument and in it. One trapper's cabin he indicated was just within the monument up on the North Fork Quinault. It is evident that fur bearers have been taken from the monument for many years to the same extent as outside it. He seemed to have no definite plans or notions of game or wild life management, and I feel that the monument has been used