OCR Text |
Show CARLOAD. OFELK In an effort to solve the ellc problem, prob-lem, forest reserves are being used to a limited degree for the ranging of tlie animals, shipments to forests in different statcB being mado this 3 cult cu-lt Is thought that good ranges for the elk of tho Wyoming section may be found whore they will thrive and fare-better fare-better than in the country where thoy have practically been confined fo: many years past The past few winters a large number num-ber of elk have perished in the Jackson Jack-son Hole country for want of feed The snow falls deep there and In severe se-vere winters, when the snow becomes crustod, It is difficult for the animali to reach the ground wnore forage may bo found. The question of protoct. Ing tho oik has become of state importance im-portance in Wyoming and tho nation has taken the matter up. The schomo pf finding ranges in other sections of the intermountnin country has beon brought to tho attention of thoso Interested In-terested n the pieservation of game, particularly the elk. It Is a gravo question with the roresters of the countrv whether the undertaking will be successful. II appears that clic and cattle or sheep do not range well together and that If a particular forest for-est reserve should be used as an elk rango, cattlo and sheep would necessarily neces-sarily havo to bo removed. Forester R. C. Miller of tho Jackson Jack-son Hole country Is better posted on tho habits of the elk than anv othei man in the country and it Is his opinion opin-ion that if a rango is provided for thorn either stock will have to he moved. The ello is not a browsing animal, and, unless grass can bo provided, pro-vided, he fares poocl., but he will range higher than cattle or sheop during dur-ing tho year, so that cattle and sheep moving ahead of him would destroy his pasture. Howover, shipments are being made at this time, word being received at forest headquarters this jnornlng that a car of elk was loaded at St. Anthony An-thony for shipment to tho Sundance forest in eastern Wyoming, near the Blnck Hills, and that within the next few das another shipment will ho ready for Walcott. southern Wyoming, near Medicine Bow The shipments will be placed In charge of Forester Chester B Morse From the unloading placo the elk will be crated singly and on bob sleds hauled to tho lange. It Is said thnt the oik is such a stubborn animal that It is next to Im-posBlblo Im-posBlblo to drive him. and, not do. siring to talco tho chanco of killing or maiming anv of thorn in an attempt to drho thorn, they will bo haulod to their destination from tho railroad. Mr Mlllor states that during the game season of last year there wore fully 1,500 elk killed by hunters. There are thousands of them lcrt. howover, but it will bo necessary to do something toward protecting their ranges to avoid their extermlnat.on Thore has been some talk of placing plac-ing a herd of oik In a forest in southern south-ern Utah, but tho plan has not taken definite form, and It la the opinion of Forester Sherman that it will be w th difficulty that a range su.tablo for the elk for both summer and winter grazing will be found, the distance between be-tween tho two ranges being so great nn- |