Aug. 14, 1957 Chester Brown and I saw Prof. Tomaneck at Hi-Hays State College and discussed the Pawnee Buttes area. He said sympathetically that although it is somewhat depleted it would recover to original conditions if protected. He would restore native plains animals slowly, bringing in bison last if the area under protection and study appeared to warrant it. He used term bio-balance, referring to the interdependence of plants and animals in creating and holding natural conditions. He seemed to feel, as I did, that there might be more practical chance of acquiring Pawnee Buttes area than the presently better grasslands areas described in the Albertson report, & which are now the base of thriving cattle ranches. Tomaneck suggested desirability of preserving perhaps 10 grassland samples of say 6/40 acres each at widely separated places to supplement one central area; these to be nicely fenced & protected with roadside exhibits to explain them. He cautioned against settling them when surrounding lands would be cultivated; soil would blow over into them & turn them to weed patches.