SEEK TO SAVE
STARVING ELK
Two Principal Herds in Country
in Danger of Serious
Depletion.
SPECIAL FUND TO BUT HAT
Officials of Department of Agriculture
Making Every Effort to Procure
the Needed Feed—Scarcity
of Forage.
Washington.—The two principal
herds of elk in the United States—one
of which is under the protection of
the biological survey of the United
States department of agriculture—are
in danger of such serious depletion,
due to early severe weather and feed
shortage, that special funds have
been set aside for the purchase of hay
for these animals whose home is in
and near Yellowstone national park.
Department officials are making every
possible effort to procure the needed
feed despite the serious scarcity of
hay and forage in the region. Approximately 40,000 elk roam this section of the country. They are divided
into two groups, known as the northern and southern herd, respectively.
The latter, which winters in the vicinity of Jackson Hole, to the south
of Yellowstone park, is the one for
which the department of agriculture
is seeking to make provision.
Ranchmen Slow to Part With Hay.
