| Show You Yon Are the Part 0 Owner l of Herd of Elk Baltimore You You and you ou Mr and Mrs United States Citizen are part owners of a herd of nearly elk that live in the northern part of Yellowstone national park Your hired men the rangers co count nt them for you once a year working on skis and snowshoes often battling blizzards At the third annual North American Ameri Amen can Wildlife conference here Victor Vietor Vic Vie tor H. H Cahalane of the United States national park service told of t the c 1937 elk census Fifteen groups of rangers working in twos a and n d threes as nearly as possible at the same time counted all the elk they could find Severe wel weather ther interfered interfered inter inter- but it Is felt that the total count of does not r represent present much duplication However because because be be- cause of the probability that many were missed hiding in small bands in thickets the count was estimated as only 90 per cent complete The full estimated total comes to head of elk There is also a southern herd on the other side of the park and in nearby territory that is about the same size as th the northern herd or perhaps even larger large |
