Haynes new guide and motorists' complete road log of Yellowstone National Park . f the Black Bears fear man so little thatthey feed from his hand. There is a Park rule againstthis proceeding that has its foundation in solid com-mon sense. These bears are powerful and timid wildanimals, and exceedingly nervous, and any unusualmovement alarms them and they may strike or resent any form of teasing, such as withholdingfood. It is unfair to the bears to feed them by hand,for bears that bite many tourists must be shot and noone is to blame but the tourists. Do not allow childrento go near


Haynes new guide and motorists' complete road log of Yellowstone National Park . f the Black Bears fear man so little thatthey feed from his hand. There is a Park rule againstthis proceeding that has its foundation in solid com-mon sense. These bears are powerful and timid wildanimals, and exceedingly nervous, and any unusualmovement alarms them and they may strike or resent any form of teasing, such as withholdingfood. It is unfair to the bears to feed them by hand,for bears that bite many tourists must be shot and noone is to blame but the tourists. Do not allow childrento go near the bears. The Buffalo or American Bison, which but a fewyears ago grazed in countless thousands on the Westernplains, are now counted in tens; only a score or more re-main in their natural state—straggling remnants of per-haps the stateliest species of hoofed animals in America;these are roaming over secluded areas in the park unmo-lested and are seldom seen. Near Mammoth Hot Springs the National ParkService keeps a herd of buffaloes during the tourist 112 HAYNES NEW GUIDE. BUFFALO STAMPEDE, LAMAR RIVER VALLEY 16181 season—the ^^show herd—in a fenced area not farfrom Mammoth Camp. The ^^tame herd, of severalhundred, is kept at the Buffalo Eanch, and the ^wild


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