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FOREST AND STREAM 
March, 1918 
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SHEEP OR ELK IN OUR 
FOREST RESERVES? 
(continued from page 141) 
against local politics, no matter what the 
cost, there will be small help for the elk. 
It is simply a question of nature against 
industry. Up to this time we have had 
pretty much the same answer in our coun¬ 
try. The present incumbents in the For¬ 
estry Service ought to be thrown out at 
once. They are an intolerable menace. 
We need more courage and less politics in 
Washington. 
There is nothing selfish in the attitude 
of the writer of this story. I have neither 
cows nor sheep to range. I don’t want to 
kill any more elk—I have not killed one 
for years. I don’t want any one else to 
kill a lot of elk. But I do want to see 
that elk herd left alive in the Yellowstone 
Park, and I do know the conditions there 
far better than the average man who does 
not hunt and does not travel. I know them 
better than any sheep man of my ac¬ 
quaintance, for I have crossed that high 
Park country on snow-shoes in a season 
when sheep men were by their firesides 
warming their toes in Utah or Idaho. I 
know them better than the Biological Sur¬ 
vey and very much better than its Forestry 
Service. There are no chestnuts I am 
asking any one to pull out of any fire for 
me and there is no one for whom I en¬ 
tertain any fear. 
We are putting this thing up to the read¬ 
ers of these columns simply as a cold¬ 
blooded proposition. You cannot have both 
sheep and elk on the present basis. Which 
do 3'ou want? 
Every one asks where the sheep are to 
go. For my own part, I am entirely will¬ 
ing to reply to the sheep man who says 
“A sheep must live,” just as Talleyrand 
replied to the beggar who said that “a man 
must live”;—“I am willing to argue that.” 
But suppose w^e do admit that a sheep has 
got to go some place—even if we prefer 
always that it be some other place—where 
may he go today? Why do not the sheep 
men of the country begin to ask and an¬ 
swer that for themselves? In the fall of 
1916 I spent considerable time in the Cum- 
berlands of Eastern Kentucky, in what 
might be called a part of the Appalachian 
wilderness, the same general region in 
which are located certain of the Appala¬ 
chian forest reserves. That is still a 
frontier country although it is very thickly 
settled, and has been settled a hundred 
years before the Mississippi Valley was 
farmed, or before the gold-seekers, crowd¬ 
ed across to California. But in those 
mountains there is a great human problem 
not yet settled. A half million people live 
in there who are not making a living, al¬ 
though they live in one of the best dairy 
and grazing countries, and perhaps the 
very best sheep country, that lies out of 
doors in America today. 
The Cumberland highlanders raise al¬ 
most no sheep. In Clay and Leslie Coun¬ 
ties there were a few sheep some years 
ago, but when wool and mutton got high 
all the breeding stock was sold. 
There are hundreds of thousands and 
millions of acres of land in the Cumber¬ 
land highlands of Kentucky, West Vir- 1 
ginia, Georgia, and North Carolina, where 
sheep could be ranged to the benefit of 
