Diary, 1911, of trip to Idaho and Wyoming
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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