MONTANA STATE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



Montana elk feeding on wind-swept ridr/es of Tepee creeJc 



The forest service is working in close cooperation with the state game depart- 

 ment and local sportsmen's association in making adjustments in range as needed 

 and is working out changes that are necessary in the present laws, if the desired 

 and necessary results are to be attained. 



If their recommendations are looked at from the practical viewpoint of har- 

 vesting an annual crop of game rather than allowing it to increase until a menace 

 to itself as would be the case if the desires of impractical idealists are followed, 

 the state can be sure of a plentiful supply of elk hunting in that region for coming 

 generations. 



ANIMALS APPRECIATE SALT 



WILD, as well as domestic animals consume salt, which may be placed in 

 convenient situations for them, with great avidity. An unfair and un- 

 sportsmanlike practice which formerly prevailed in deer country was to 

 establish artificial salt licks and to shoot the deer at night or from blinds as they 

 came to the licks. 



The game wardens of Montana are using large quantities of block salt in the 

 care of wild game animals on game refuges. Much of this was distributed in the 

 Sun River country, Spotted Bear preserve, Gallatin, Thompson Falls and other 

 areas. The salt serves to keep the animals in good physical condition and espe- 

 cially to free them from ticks and other insect parasites. 



A marked increase in numbers of elk and deer has been noted since inaugu- 

 rating the policy of eradication of mountain lions and coyotes and the distribu- 

 tion of salt. 



