Show 191 Id Cassity and Stanley Castagno who were operating Stansbury 19 a cattle range Although relatively small Island as called Bird Island commonly gion) is probably better (22 acres) Hat among Island (more the people of the lake known and has been visited re- by more islands except Antelope The reason for its popularity is that until recent years it has been the nesting ground for thousands of gulls and pelicans as Stansbury was no well as for blue herons and cormorants doubt the first to visit this small island and give it its proper name20 It is interesting to note that he failed to people than any of the bird life on it although he mentioned large numIt is bers of birds on Fremont Egg and Gunnison islands home highly probable that the tiny island did not become the of the birds until the other islands became inhabited or at least were frequented by man In later years Hat Island became so famous as a bird refuge that it gained its other In recent years since the more common name ”Bird” island lake has receded connecting the island with the mainland by a stretch of flat plain the birds seem to have almost co- mention any mpletely it deserted 19 Stoddard 20 p Supra 21 Behle Salt Lake in as a nesting ground21 This is perhaps "I Homesteaded Carrington Island” 3 150 ”The 1943” Pelican Colony at Gunnison Island Great np |