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Show FAMOUS ELK HERD FACES EXTINCTION NEW YORK. Pec. 11. The famous elk herd in Yellowstone park, numbering 30,-000 30,-000 animals, faces extinction because of the heaviest snowfall in thirty years, and the heavy slaughter of the animals in Montana. - where they have been driven iiv search of food, according to T loner t S. Yard, executive secretarv of tho National Na-tional Parks association. Five thousa nd animals already have been killed by hunters hunt-ers outfdde the park and their carcasses car-casses shipped to market in the present hunting season, which - does not close until Christmas eve, Mr. Yard said. The National Parks association is conducting con-ducting a campaign for the elks' preservation, preser-vation, and lr. Yard declared that starvation star-vation faces the animals left unless large (juan tities of hay, for which no appropriation appro-priation is at present available, can be distributed in their feeding grounds. The almost unprecedentedly lie a vy snowfall has cut off the usual food supplies. |