GREAT QUESTION IN JACKSON'S 247 



Desert. This wide spread of country supplied 

 ample forage for them during the severe win- 

 ter months. Those in the north worked from 

 the park into available ranges in Montana, 

 where forage was then also plentiful. 



In time the Idaho ranges, the Red Desert and 

 other outlying ranges were turned over by the 

 Federal authorities to sheep men, whose flocks 

 swept them and keep them swept clean of win- 

 ter forage, until at length only Jackson's Hole 

 remained to the southern herds, exceedingly in- 

 significant and most inadequate, as compared 

 with the one-time extensive and adequate win- 

 ter ranges. Elk will starve on any range that 

 sheep have grazed. Let us not forget the fact 

 that with the elimination of winter ranges the 

 elk were not proportionately reduced in num- 

 bers. 



In Jackson's Hole nothing but the unyield- 

 ing position of the settlers, who are determined 

 that the animals shall not be robbed of this last 

 range, has kept the sheep men out. I have 

 never visited a game country where the people 

 were so unanimously game conservers, so keenly 

 alive to the value of game and have individu- 

 ally sacrificed so much for its preservation as 

 the people of Jackson's Hole. 



Their method of excluding the sheep man 



