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Development ylko county
Thinks that the elk move to
the left back before the snow
[illegible] was established
March 31. Jackson
V. W.J. Kelly (Groovy) thinks there are about
2000 elk in the Jackson Hole country.
Thinks have been about at a standstill or
declining a little during the last 3 years.
This hard to arrange any solution which
will not cause some trouble. There will
always be some depredation by them.
They must have to be fed, and moved
favorable setting. A certain area for
a winter refuge and thus should be
a outlet to allow them to go back
out fronts without trouble settling.
Thinks thus showed in a radius
✓ Thinks 1000 or 1500 tons straw
for elk during arrange winter
✓ Hay worth more to feed to stock
than elk
✓ Less than 7000 cattle in Jackson Hole
about 10,000 tons of hay pickup in
valley.
Thinks area will be increasingly valuable
as a cattle range
✓ Thinks elk should be cut down to 2 or
3 thousand heads. Thinks that game law
should be enforced literally
and that many showed be distributed