Show SCHEME fOR PROTECTION I Of THE ELK ElKi Advocates Fence for Certain Certain CerI I tam tain Portions of Reserve N Near eaT Yellowstone WINTER HOME FOR FORTHE FORTHE FORTHE THE ANTLERED HERD W. W E. E Curtis ThinKs They Need eed Same Protection in Winter as Summer ummer i iI I CHICAGO GO Tan Jan 25 25 William E E. Curtis Curtis Cur Cur- in au an article artic un under er a Washington date in today's today a Record Herald cates f fencing off alT certain portions of at the tIme national forests outside of Yellowstone I park as refu refuges es for game There Thero is says sav he a a herd of j 2000 ell elk in the tile Yellowstone park and tho time forest re reserve nd adjoining lJ it in north north- I em ern Wyoming General Young g. g who has hns been superintendent of Y Yellowstone ton park for several w years year says bays that hunters hunt ers era have ha estimated the tIme herd as is high hith as head They spend time thc summer ummer in Hi th thin the Yellowstone park and ns as int winter r approaches move southward to a lower altitude to find grazing They can stand stanel any amount of oC cold if they the can get t food JT lT S. S Palmer chief of division game preservation department of n agriculture agriculture agri agri- ri- ri culture fa says S 'S that several ne thousand of them winter around th the town of Gardiner Gardi Gardi- ner near the tho Mammoth Hot Springs in alle th the northeastern northeast northeast- and Hayden valley in n Nil ern portion of tho the park where there ISan is isan isan an open country and pl plenty of lit food more go o down into tho the Wyoming state game preserve where herc a range of more I than acres was set apart in 1905 and others go down n into Jackson Hole which is b being rapidly filled fined up with settlers and ana where for that reason th they are arc no iio longer safe 4 The Th problem before the govern government o orn rn m meat ment nt says Mr Ir Palmer i is to find them a permanent feeding ground wh whore where re they will he be prot protected lilting during the wi winter u as they tho are aro now protected in tho the park during dimming tho the summer season |