The Yellowstone Park 



remarkable notes, the whistling of the elk, but 

 with only partial success. The story is told 

 that the elk left that part of the country, and 

 he was unable to keep up with them. 



That there are several thousand elk in the 

 Park and adjoining country is quite certain, 

 but from the nature of the case it is a difficult 

 matter to estimate them. Their number may 

 vary from year to year, depending upon the 

 severity of the winter and other causes. Ex- 

 ceptionally severe seasons would naturally 

 cause an increased death-rate. At all events, 

 they exist in numbers sufficient to put at rest 

 all fear of extermination if they shall only 

 be protected and allowed to wander undis- 

 turbed. Several favorable seasons might 

 cause them to reach the limit of a winter's 

 food supply, but overcrowding must tend to 

 a high death-rate, and the struggle for ex- 

 istence would keep their number down. The 

 migratory habits of the elk would lead them 

 to seek new haunts beyond the protected 

 region, offering every year opportunities for 

 healthy, manly sport to the ambitious hunter 

 during the shooting-season. 



Moose have been observed In this region 

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