Show Ranges Can Hold Head of Elk ElkA I IA A five rive point plan to increase Utah s elk from approximately lei to 10 10 head has hILS h s been Irian up by Director Mark Ander Anderson Anderson son on of the state fish and gams it gan department Ai derson s program calls for 1 Ex Expenditure fn of ot all revenues revenue that tl U e a elk In the state produce and more on elk 2 continuance to trap elk from the worst trouble spits X ts ti and take them Into more remote re remote mote mole places 3 the building of Belk I elk proof fences 4 feeding in inI Isome places s as a last resort and I 15 5 b lying range lands land and in a afew afew few places place p purchase marginal cul culI lands I Under the best management I believe we will be able to have a aI aI I total of about elk In Utah I said eald Director Anderson Andersen He re reported reported reported ported that sportsmen must m not notI I only contin con tin se Ie e to remove the surplus sur surplus surplus plus by regular hunts In season but butI that a 1 program must be followed I by b which chronic marauders elk that hat have the farm and haystack habit can be killed at times to pre I the reputation of our good goodelk goodelk goodelk elk It Is ts essential that we VII know at I elkI least approximately now many big game animals are on a given range unit If It we are arc to properly regulate regula te hunting he pointed out An air airplane airplane airplane plane count of Utah s 8 elk herds is 15 isnow isnow now being made and It Is expected that this count will show a total elk population of more than I which Is not large considering the size of th the state and the area lof of our mountain ran ranges suitable for elk elk he saidI said I Mr Anderson who has spent much time In recent years on the study of elk declared Utah s 8 elk herds do not compare In numbers with the Yellowstone Jackson Hole Olympic Sunriver or Sal Salway Salway Salway way elk herds that are native to those ranges but in no other state have planted or Introduced elk thrived better than In Utah The Nebo elk planting as far faras faras taras as we have been able to learn has proved the most thrifty and prolific of all aU elk herds planted or native he said From an original planting of 48 elk in 1914 2000 2 elk have been taken legally by huntera hunt hunters hunters ers era In tha that t area and there are I hundreds left on the range now I Elk Were Abundant Elk were plentiful throughout the entire western part of the con continent continent from the Canadian border down Into California Arizona and New Mexico In the early 1800 s 8 pointed out Mr Anderson but by 1910 they had become exceedingly scarce Only a few bands survived and these in the most remote places pieces It was In 1911 that some |