The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-01
SIEVE FOSTER |S
 BACK FROM TRIP IN W|lDNERNESS

turned to Nenana recently from the
 Kuskokwim country and brought to
 a termination thereby very inter-
 esting trip which involved several side trips into the little known parts of the country contiguous to the Mckinley Natonal Park, Lake Minchumina and the headwaters of the Kuskokwim river. During the
 trip he covered 1888 miles by dog ! sled.
 The journey to Tacotna was be- gun on February 12, when he left
 Nenana for Stony creek. From Stony creek he went into the Me
 Kinley Park country in search of a
 man named Kamsguard, who was said to have been lost He spent i four days in that region, but did not find any trace of the man. From the park he back tracked to Eureka, Glacier and Roosevelt creeks in the kantishna country. After a few days spent in the region on the business which called him there, the long journey to the headwaters of the Kuskokwim and the Tacotna river region was commenced.
 Several cases of violation of the game laws were discovered in the Kantishna country, but owing to the fact that there was no commissioner in the district, the violators were not prosecuted. No less than 74 quarters of caribou and the car casses of a dozen COW moose were found in one cache, and apart from taking steps to have the meat cured and taken care of for human con- sumption, no further action resulted.
 The entire journey from Nenana to McGrath, on the Kuskokwim river, is some 335 miles; the greater portion of the distance lies through little known country and over un- broken trails. During the journey great many side trips became necessary and, consequently, much time was consumed before McGrath was reached.
 In the territory within the jurs- diction of the U. s. commissioner at McGrath, in the mountains sev- eral miles removed from the nearby settlements, large quantities of wild meat were found in caches. All this meat was hauled into McGrath. MT. Foster states that he found a whole sale violation of the game laws in this region, which resulted in his being able to obtain 14 convictions white men in every case-fines of varying proportions being inn posed by the commissioner.
 The meat was not confiscated, as it would have resulted in it's total loss, but the hunters were com pelled to cure and take care of the meat for food. .....:.. :-..-
 The game in the upper Kusko- kwim region, Mr. Foster states, are dying in large numbers as the re- suit of disease. The moose there are said to be in very poor condi- tion; the disease they are suffering from even arresting the growth of their horns, which, in some cases, are said to be about the size of mans hand only. There is said to be practically no feed, as the result of forest fires, for the caribou herds that annually roam the coun- III SiCdI IluiuDCIo, anu IIcy would appear to have migrated else where in search of food. The pres ence of vast herds of these animals in parts of the country adjacent to Lake Minchumina, where they had never been seen before, is thus ac- counted for.
 The mountain sheep in the upper Kuskokwim would also appear to be affected with disease known
 as lump jaw, and MT. Foster stated
 that they were reported to be dying i by the dozens. This disease is said to be very contagious and it is 1 faarad yyiIl ,,yrocl, cod baxyon anoonD