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go to a lower altitude. The Forest Service 

 issues permits to the sheep men to graze 

 their flocks on every side of this region 

 but the south or Jackson's Hole side. The 

 elk, in leaving the Park and Game Pre- 

 serve, are, therefore, forced to come into 

 Jackson's Hole in greater numbers than 

 the valley will support. In consequence, 

 a great many of them starve. We are 

 trying to have the state make some arrange- 

 ment to stop so much unnecessary suffer- 

 ing. Two years ago, 5,000 elk died of 

 starvation in this valley right among the 

 ranches. Again, this \\'inter, they are 

 dying by hundreds, and within a month 

 they will starve by the thousands. There 

 are now 20,000 elk in this little vallej' in a 

 starving condition; the calves go first. The 

 poor little things follow the herd as long 

 as they can till they get too weak to go 

 farther, then they lie for daj's in the 

 shelter of some friendly bush until death 

 relieves their suffering. Right now, as I 

 write these lines, there are hundreds of 

 them around our barn, among the horses 

 and cattle, picking up the few straws to 

 be found. It takes a hard heart to see 

 them suffer so, but, did we feed them or 

 allow them to feed with our stock, we 

 would run short of hay and our own stock 

 would suffer; so we are obliged to drive 

 them away when we feed. We just 

 received word over the telephone that the 

 state has appropriated %s,ooo with which 

 to buy hay, but there is not enough hay 

 in the valley that can be spared to feed 

 one fourth of the elk. The only recourse 

 is to get the settlers to drive stock out 

 over the Teton Range of mountains into 

 Idaho, where they might procure food for 

 them, and let the elk have the hay here. 

 This, however, is quite an undertaking, 

 attended with much risk, and, besides, 

 the only road is now blocked with snow 

 nearly ten feet deep. If Wyoming would 

 only prepare for this during the summer 

 when there is plenty of cheap hay, or else 

 reduce the numbers of elk by some 

 legitimate means, there would be less 

 suffering." 



Mr. Howard Eaton, of Wolf, Wyoming, 

 in a letter dated February 27, suggests a 



wa}' of relief by urging that the govern- 

 ment take steps to remove the extra 

 stock of elk in Jackson's Hole to other 

 reservations, such as the Big Horns, 

 Medicine Bow Range, and the head of 

 the Shoshone Encampment Country. A 

 moderate appropriation would do this, 

 and the elk would be given additional 

 territory in which to increase. With 

 great force, he points to experiments of 

 this character in the state which have 

 been abundantly successful. — T. G. P. 



New Members 



During the period between January i 

 and March i, 1911, the following persons 

 became members and contributors to 

 the work of the Xational Association. 



Life Members — 



Brooks, Mr. Peter C, 

 Taft, Mr. E. B., 

 Watson, Mrs. James. B., 

 WeUs, Mrs. F. L., 



Sustaining Members — 



Abbott, Mrs. Edwin H., 

 Allen, Miss :Mary P., 

 Appleton, Miss Maud E., 

 Aver, Mr. C. F., 

 Bacon, Mrs. F. E., 

 Bartol, Miss C. H., 

 Bellard, Miss Katherine, 

 Brower, Miss L. S., 

 Brown, Mr. X. C, 

 Burnham, Mrs. J. C, 

 Case, Mrs. Ermine, 

 Case, Airs. Geo. B., 

 Christie, Mr. Percival, 

 Cole, Mrs. Adelina A., 

 Converse, Mr. F. S. 

 Courtney, Rt. Rev. F., 

 Crane, Miss Ellen J., 

 Crocker, Dorothea, 

 Cummings, Airs. C. A., Jr., 

 Davis, Mr. Geo. P., 

 Dickson, Mrs. James B., 

 Dickson, Mr. James B., 

 Dryden, Mrs. Cynthia F., 

 Dryden, Air. John F., 

 Du Bois, Mrs. Goddard, 

 Ewell, Airs. J. AI., 

 Finch, Air. Edward, 

 Forbes, Airs. AI. J. 

 Franklin, Aliss Laura I. P., 

 Fuertes, Louis A., 

 Hamilton. Airs. W. P., 

 Hammond, Airs. J. H., 

 Henrickson, Air. John H. 

 Hodge, Air. D. W., 



