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Show By Ted Resting The population cf big gnme rni-T.r.ls rni-T.r.ls in the United S at" lacr a1--d by 5.9 per c nt in 1913 over the 1941 Inventory, according tj th: Fish and W.l.T.f,' Service. A. re- j cently compl ted tabulation o' i .ii'Uies received from Federal. StU and private iig neies give the pcpulation of a:i nnimah c'.ass-f.cd c'.ass-f.cd as big g.r.r.e within t'.i U.ii ed Slates as 7,113 4-2 in U43. c ir.arod jcitli 6,743,424 ia 1911. T.iis r pr-.-,-i!ti about one animel for each 19 d rsons. Because of the grea: many sp .rat; enunr. rations involwd, th .vporis from the 1914 invent -r. nave not be. n tabul.it. ', an i t'a Actual taking of lhe.;C4.i :..v nt.r; hats, not teen compl et d for a! spcl ,s. . The .s'.nte. with the large t bi:. game popuUbn in 1943 Vr.s Peiin-sHvania, Peiin-sHvania, wlth 1,104,055 animal;-acaiiy animal;-acaiiy ell of, vvLich were d ,-r Michigan rar.k d next with 731,43' oliowed by M nn sota with C31.D77 Jalifomia with 507,C2, tn.l Orcgo. i h 5834.2C1. Kansas U tlv? onlj itate reportedly without big gam Washington ;state has th; gr.ai est variety. ryer greatly outnumber, d a" jtfvr big gam; ar.im'ls. At tin jther extr jne is the wojdlaiul cari ou with only 15 animals r.poru d and they are all in Miiin.ejla. The peccary of j.iv lini, the onl. American r, prcsentativ; of the wh. pigs, showed a high.r percer.tag of lncr.ase than any other sp'.ciei Prong homed antelope, tlvi smi and gracjul 'menuer of" Un. dee. iamiiy found on th wo-tein plain 13 continuing to increase. In 192 .hat specs seein d downed to ex-t ex-t rminatlon. . ' ' Tne Anieiic 'n bifron,' or buffalo also teems d.,fi.ilt'ly to have U el. r t,cUcd lroni- the t'uriat of. fx unction, al hou.h picsent h rd are on:y a t;na!l fraction of th number that o.icj roam d the uiains. The American elk no occurs it. 35 s.ate; und is consiJ.r.d hunt able gam In 11. Moose too show an increase, tluush their . fuiur .veirare is in doubt becnus' -of th continued destruction of tlvir natural nat-ural habitat. A total of 733,3i)G big-game mil mnls was e.thnat d kill d In lh United States during th- 13.U reason. rea-son. Most of the kill records wer: lor 1 gal k li in cpen s ason. 'Ih iilcgfJ kill over lh,e country n t whol : is no small item and in s.me localities may equal more than hat the authorhrd kill. |