Word: herds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broadened, bringing with it more of the terrifying odors; a snort of alarm, figures of men and horses galloping from concealment, the crack of rifles, carnage. As survivors of the herd thundered off into fastnesses of their island (18 miles long, five wide), they could not know the worst: that this was no casual foray by human meat-hunters, but slaughter by up-to-date sportsmen, with intent to decimate. Not hunger but commercialism had precipitated the onslaught. The buffalo of Antelope Island were doomed, all but about 50 of them, to make way for more manageable and profitable cattle...
...score years since the late John E. Dooley, then owner of Antelope Island, contrived to take there a small band of buffalo. How he managed this feat no one living seems to know. It baffled one A. H. Leonard who bought the buffalo herd last April with the idea of selling the animals to zoos. Not only were the creatures too wild to catch, but the five-mile stretch of water between island and mainland was too shallow for barges, too deep for motor trucks. If John E. Dooley swam and waded his small herd out to the island, that...
Meantime, the New York World and other newspapers tried, by featuring the hunts in large headlines, to spur some humane or public-spirited person of wealth to preserve the finest-herd of wild buffalo left in the country. Since the hunts were first announced some months ago, Governor Dern of Utah had received protests from Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Nichols of Boston, the American Humane Society; but could only reply, "Antelope Island and the buffalo herd are privately owned...
...rapid multiplication of the Antelope Island buffalo herd from a few head in 1885 to 300 this year, surprised conservationists. The explanation was found more in the good food supply than the lack of molestation. Food supply is a far greater factor in conserving game than are refinements upon the already adequate protective legislation.* Contrary to popular belief, the migratory game birds of the U. S. are not diminishing but increasing, according to the U. S. Biological Survey. This fact lately led Editor Clark Adams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, himself a keen hunter, to pen an article...
...Antelope Island herd: 300 head. In all Federal reservations put together: 1,100 head...