1218 W. 10th Ave. 
                      Amarillo Texas. 
                      August 12, 1959. 
 
 
 
 
 
Dear Aldo: 
          I am pleased to have confirmation of your imp ending visit to 
the Texas Panhandle and hope you will be able to find time for one day 
in the field. You will be pressed for time of course, but if you could 
arrange a day 1 think 1 can show you some mighty interesting range, the 
likes of which you perhaps have never seen before if this is your first 
trip out here. 
         I am thinking especially of the Cottonw;ood ranch for Quail and

our shin oak prairie chicken range. The latter is new to me but perhaps 
not to you. There are places where you can stand on a ridge and look 
from horizon to horizon over a sea of shin oak about knee high. Interspersed

are numerous Motts or islands of tall shin oak ten to fifteen feet high,

round or oval in shape, and anywhere from ten feet to 1l, feet in diameter.

One immediately thinks of the Scottish grouse moors. now the larger islands

came into being 1 do not know as yet, oldtimers say they have always been

that way as far back as they can remember. These big partures have burned

occasionally and perhaps that with grazing has be ýn responsible.
The enclosed 
letter summarized current ideas for management remarkably well 1 think. 
You will meet the author 1 hope, and will appreciate him as 1 do. Please

return the letter for my files after reading. 
         Glad that you are pleased with the knife- 1 shallhold out a trip

to the Allanreed smithy as a hole card in the event you get too busy with

S.C.S. business. Its right on the way to Cottonwood and the P.C.range. 
The ivory ball on your scabbard is alas, not ivory but a composition bead

filched from Peter's war box. 
         Sorry to learn that the pines are threatened, there is 1 suppose

nothing we can do about it.