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This year we meet the growing popular demand 
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Photo by Ernest Miller 
A stubborn pack horse 
Yellowstone Elk Problems 
Big Game is One of the Greatest Assets 
of the West. 
Of all Species, Elk Probably 
Need the Most Intensive Conservation. 
By ERNEST MILLER 
game animals in North America, 
needs the help of the sportsmen 
of the United States or a few more sea- 
sons like 1919 and the present one will 
cut them down to such an extent that 
they will be years in recovering from 
it if they ever do. 
There are a few elk scattered 
throughout the country but the main 
native herds of these animals are in 
and around Yellowstone Park. Roughly 
these elk are divided into three herds; 
the northern herd, the southern herd 
and the Gallatin herd. 
The elk are suffering from several 
causes, chief among which, however, is 
lack of feed or winter range when they 
come from their summer range in the 
Park to the lower country surrounding 
it. Prolonged hunting seasons in cer- 
tain sections surrounding the Park 
keeps the game back in the high coun- 
try within the Park until it is almost 
starved to death or if it is forced out 
of the Park by the severe weather it 
is then at the mercy of a bunch of flock 
shooters who pour lead into a herd of 
elk until they drop one in its tracks or 
run out of ammunition, mortally wound- 
ing a great many more than they actu- 
ally claim. 
Tooth hunting is still a menace and 
f | ‘HE elk or wapiti, one of the finest 
although not as bad as it used to be, it’ 
is still responsible for the death of 
many fine bulls each year. There is 
also the so-called settler with a half 
dozen or more children who buys a li- 
cense for all of them for a dollar or 
two per license, and then proceeds to 
kill an elk for each member of the 
family. 
In these papers I will take up these 
problems with a few suggestions that 
could be applied to each in a practical 
way. These suggestions are not all my 
own but are offered after going over the 
situation very carefully with the most 
experienced men in the country on game 
matters. 
ie back in the days when land could be 
had for the asking and Yellowstone 
Park was roughly laid out, those old 
pioneers could have realized of what 
tremendous importance a few more 
square miles would have meant to the 
game herds that should be the right- 
ful heritage of future generations 
along with the other wonders of the 
Park, they would doubtless have in- 
cluded in that area sufficient territory 
so that the game herds which rightfully 
belong to America’s great, wonderland 
would be enabled to live the year round 
within its protecting boundaries. 
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