New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1917, Page 12

) WINTER HITS LLOWSTONE ELKS May Be Greatly Reduced - by Lack of Food AN U gton, May .18.—Alarming f conditions which threaten of the Yellowstone elk ‘beginning to.reach the de- “of agriculture, both from b Jackson’s Hole region #nd from fdiner; Montana, 1o be ‘due” to ,an _exceptionally winter snowfall and late on- of spring. Deep crusted snow eyenting the elk from obtaining Bir usual’feed-and the weakened AMERICAN AIRMENREPA 'NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, ING FRANCE FOR . LAFAYETTE'S AID IN OUR WAR FOR LIBERTY .The danger . is{. als, especially the ‘calves, are Ye- | to be dying rspidly in spite of large supply of hay provided by federal’ government such jergencjes. This supply, /howevnr, - been exhausted. elk which winter around Jack- Hole, in Wyoming, are known the southern or ' Jackson's Hole and number more than 20,000. j® northern or park herd is esti- | A by the park autharities to con- |- over 30,000 animals. According Teports recdived by the foreat i the losses “in the southern may reach even as high a as one-third the entire number ‘Dfleflmlly an entire loss of last calves. In the northern herd itions appear to be less critical, n $mmediate spring break-up is ly ‘hoped ' for by those interested ping the elk preserved, en I left Gardiner abo\i! three ago,’” said Charles Sheldon, the r and naturalist who was se- by the government to represent jportsmen in the elk census at- Apted this spring, “the elk that I “seemed 6n the whole mot in bad for this time of year except lves, many of which were pretty nut the snow was unusually and the elk widely scattered in of tood. I understand it has owfiig' since I left and that. rable losses are thought prob- q wh r has been extremely and both elk and domestio ‘stock are bound to suffer under h éxceptional conditionis. Because depth of the snow it was im- to make the elk census that d planned. \ Snow Shuts Off Food. ly there isn't enough snow nt the elk from getting at feed. ,This winter, however, a ' of storms has piled the ‘up, with the result that ' the ‘1“ have becomd weakened by on “ starvation. At Jackson's . Biological Survey had over ’ig-.y available for feeding Dt derstana tn, supply is modt Dlaces ‘teeding the elk 15 .question. ‘Hay costs around ~mn and it is almost impossible ; hold of any at .that price. ttle and sheep men are unable enough to feed their stock, , I am told, probably suffer losses. Even if unlimited of hay could be had there be no way to get it to the elk, “the raads are impassable. In places in the Yellowstone Park the mails are being carried by snowshoes and skiis, K preservation is a matter that ts many difficyities. It involves ‘which can’t be solved with- ul study. It would be ‘s wise nor a possible policy 'in homesteade. to attempt exclusion of home!'aldel‘! and stockmen from the natural range of the elk to the extent that would be required to insure adequate feed- ing grounds In a year like this. At the same time nearly everybody now recognizes' that'something should be done to guard the elk mlnut recur- rllu' years of starvation. ““The solution is evidently some form of carefully thought-out control, un- der which there will -be provision of a sufficlent amount of both summer and winter range for a reasonable number and also some provision for utilizing the normal increment of the herds instead of letting the elk al- ternately multiply and starve off. “To provide feed for elk the forest service has either prohibited or great- ly restricted grhzing on about two mil- lion acres on. the',National Forests of the Yellowstone region. This, ac- cording to the forestry people, in- cludes by far the larger part of the remaining available winter elk range n these forests, - which can be reached by the elk. e most serious feature of the situation is that in the past the elk haye been in the habit of wintering largely in open country outside the National Forests and the Yellowstone par, on land which is now . Working' out the right policy callg for expert study of the whole subject along the lines al- ready -underuk* by the officials in charge. : “The entire elk question is now be- ing thus studied, and very carefully/ by the Forest Service, Nationa: Park Servite, and Biological Survey. I be- lleve that outsiders shbuld await the formulation of a plan by these bu- rea Wwhich will soen be in posses- : ! sion of the information necessary to Solve the problem correctly. First of all the gresent size of the elk herds must be accurately determined. It must then be found out how many the avallable winter range will sup- port. This will fix the maximum 'size of the herd to be conserved. .’ “As the animals multiply above this maximum, some af the surplus should be used to restock areas in other states which are suited to the elk. What method shoyld be adopted for the disposal of the further surplus remains to beé decided.” Officials of the department of agri- culture point out that, deplorable as are the losses which the elk herds are now suffering, the situation is not es- sentially different from that created among domestic livestock by seasons of unustal severity. The natural.in- orease will, they #ay, gradually bring the herds back to their former size i, they are properly protected. Both the Forest Service and the National Park Service are deeply interested in the perpetuation of the elk, and are working together in an effort to find a consistent, workable conservation pol- fey. CAPTURED qus AS TROPHIES. London; May 18.—A special War Office committee has been appointed to deal with the collection and dis- tribution of captured guns which are useful only as trophies. They will be sent in general to the home dis- tricts of the troops which capturea them, and a considerable number are to be set aside for shipment to Can- ada. Some of the members of the famous Lafayette escadrille, American aviat- ors servingin the French army, are shown in the picture. The picture was made in front of the Lafayette statue in Parie. At the right is Wil- liam Thaw, and second from the left i3 Sergeant Liufberry. In the center is Captain' Tenot, the. commander of the escadrille. A recent recruit of the corps is John A. Drexel of Philadel- phia, who had been attached to the aviation school at Plessis-Bellville. Previous to this he drove the car of General Sir John French, going te the front shortly affer the war started as a\chauffeur. Before the war he gained considerable fame as an aviat- or. 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