
Yellowstone is our largest national 
park. It is 64 miles long by 52 miles 
wide with approximately three thou- 
sand square miles. Yet all of this is 
a mountainous region in which the low- 
jest valleys are over five thousand feet 
above the level of the sea. The altitude 
‘is too high, and the snowfall is too 
heavy to think of wintering elk in this 
region in any numbers unless artificial 
methods of feeding are adopted and 
when our naturally wild game herds 
“become domesticated to that extent, they 
lose their charm as game animals and 
furthermore, this phase of the situation 
has been gone over a good many times 
| and while we have had to resort to it 
during critical weather conditions in 
| times past when domestic stock had 
/eaten out the elk’s natural winter for- 
age, it is certainly not a practical way 
to solve the situation, and practical, 
_workable methods are what we want. 

HE big live stock interests have 
been and are the biggest enemies 
that the elk in the Yellowstone region 
have to face today. Although just a 
| few years ago almost the entire area 
ef a good many of our western states 
was being used for this purpose, still 
one would gather from the remarks of 
stockmen that their future would be 
jeopardized and their business go to 
pot unless Yellowstone Park itself and 
| certainly all the areas around it were 
‘thrown open to grazing. 
This reasoning was on the same 
principle as that of the man who owned 
the earth but just needed another piece 
of land outside for a potato patch. 
The total area of Yellowstone Park 
/ and all of the land surrounding it suf- 
ficient to safeguard the main body of 
‘the American Wapiti herds forever 
_ would not effect the live-stock industry 
in the two states most concerned—Wy- 
oming and Montana—to the extent of a 
twenty-fifth of one per cent. 
HERE are millions of acres of 
range land now used by livestock 
_ that never could be turned into a game 
refuge. It would not be a practical 
thing to do and furthermore the live- 
stock industry still plays a very promi- 
nant part in the welfare of the west. 
- On the other hand there are areas that 
are worth a great deal more to the 
country at large and to the identical 
section in particular as a reservation 
for the game herds than they are for 
any other purpose. By that I mean 
that, aside from all sentiment in the 
case, there are certain sections in which 
the game of the region is more of an 
asset and will pay just ten times more 
in cold dollars and cents than the same 
region stocked to capacity with cattle 
or sheep could possibly bring. 
Elk can winter well in a country 
Where cattle or sheep would starve to 
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