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no enemies witliin tlie park. Tlie out- nally living far out on the plains and at 

 look for the preser\ation and increase of a much lower altitude, the elk seems to 

 this herd is good. ha\e adapted itself to its forced retire- 

 But the mannnal tliat lias taken most ment to these mountain fastnesses, 

 kindly to the park is tlie elk. Origi- until now the region we are discussing 





This 'wild hfiil v\.t,-. niluceil in l'JU2 to only twenty-two members, through difficulty in proper protection 

 under laws existing then. In 1912 there were forty-nine and in 1915 about seventy. These buffalo are very wild 

 and never permit the approach of man or horse. They winter at an elevation of 8000 feet in Pelican Valley 



