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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