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Workmen in the Hoback Basin
Is in favor of the Gros Ventre
Regions - to be under Federal
control
Mule Deer winter in Hoback valley,
in good shape.
Sheep & killed on Cliff Creek East
fall. Some on Landhook Mt.,
seen sheep tracks on Shovel
Creek and Toward Granite Creek
Wolves kill some elk but do
not bother domestic stock here
A few moose in Hoback Basin
One seen near
Plow East
A few antelope come in in Spring
but are seldom seen again until
fall.
Domestic Sheep are coming in to
Cliff Creek and are over-racing the
deserted bands - the summits of Hoback
basin on the South.
May 14. Jackson
Mr. Newell and I took trip up
on the hills east of town. Saw
a bunch of about 40 elk which
were feeding at the edge of the
snow, which covered all the
country, much of the rim of the
Gros Ventre foothills excepting some
south hillsides. The elk did not
seem to be in very good shape but
were strong. They now
become shy and it is not easy
to get near them. We found a
bighorn Sheep which had been killed
by wolves. Returning we saw a
skull of a Mountain Sheep about
many years old. A very large bull
elk was lying at the foot of a
cliff and seemed to have been
shot but its decomposed condition
made it impossible to prove this.
It
seems that the animal was still warm
San Gader Eagle with a Steel Fork
on one foot.