Diary, 1911, of trip to Idaho and Wyoming
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Grovont March 26. (Sunday) Sr. E. b. Steele (Jackson) Thinks the Govt should provide a supply of hay and feed them in some place (Preferably the ground near Belknap) when the ground is drier than the grass Thinks better Govt management of the feeding than may be 25,000 elk in the Jackson Hole Country. Thinks they have increased slowly during past 5 years. Thinks every rancher should be encouraged to raise a pair elk and it is allowed by anyone of them. Thinks 70% of the adult cows big young. Thinks the old bulls showed he killed 11 at the younger bulls, almost all on Thinks the 9's die more than the males Every 9 or 10 calves caught only one was F. Thinks another feeding place should be located on high ground somewhere in the South Park and fed in emergency. The calves should be segregated if possible and fed in preference to the old ones Thinks he got a feeding works Thunders one man at each feed ground corps to do the work. Thinks 300 lbs of hay each winter would keep an elk. Hay could be secured at $6 per ton Thinks the Stalls Game Preserve should be abolished. Thinks Coyotes, wolves, as Lynx breed them. Thinks lynxes pray on elk and deer. Saw a lynx attack a bull elk and kill at Lynx had scared the elk on the Trip, at which seen was in the animals head Librins the horns who within 25 feet the lynx left the elk and the animals ran away. Thinks the elk are kept back in the Game Preserve until dates and then come out in herds at an entry by the hunting. Thinks the elk moves he saved by the Preserve Day During Open. Thinks that more elk escape wounded they are killed