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of elk planted on the section of the Uinta Forest centering around 

 Mount Nebo is estimated at approximately 650 head. Moose are 

 rare, being limited to about 2,500 ranging close to Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park upon the Teton and Targhee Forests. Mountain goats, 

 also, are rare. Probably some 1,300 of them dwell among the high, 



Figure 7. 



-Elk wiii'tering in Jackson Hole. Much of the elk mountain range is within 

 the Teton National Forest 



almost inaccessible mountain peaks of central Idaho. Mountain 

 sheep are about as numerous, but are scattered very widely over the 

 forests of the region. 



While the management and control measures affecting this game 

 rests with the States, the Forest Service cooperates heartily with 

 the State officials in enforcing the game laws, planting fish (fig. 8), 



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