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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry201914amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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STATE FOREST AS GAME PRESERVE 343
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Elk Arriving at Itasca State Park. this carload of elk was shipped from jackson hole, wyoming, to itasca park in minnesota and will be used to stock the park. STATE FOREST AS GAME PRESERVE By Ernest O. Buhler THE arrival at Itasca Park, Min- nesota, of a carload of elk from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, marks the beginning of a plan under which, it is hoped, these magnificent ani- mals will be restored to the Minnesota forests in something like their former numbers. Once they roamed over Min- nesota's wilds by thousands. But the hunter's rifle reduced them year after year, until there was danger that they would soon be added to the list of ex- tinct animals. Then the Yellowstone Park came to the rescue. To it the remaining elk gathered from the mountain ranges around, and there—amid just such an environment of forest, lake, meadow, swamp and snow-capped mountains as was most favorable for their multipli- cation—they have bred in such num- bers that the Government has recently deemed the time ripe for their distribu- tion among such States as would pro- vide for them the necessary protection in a forest refuge. State Forester W. T. Cox, of Minne- sota, saw the value of the opportunity, and Itasca Park offered an ideal spot for a refuge. It was only necessary to surround with an eight-foot wire fence an area about a mile square, timber land, meadow and lake, and the refuge was ready. The elk were very wild and difficult to catch, but a deep snow, while hinder- ing their rapid flight, made it possible to tire them out by a persistent pursuit on snowshoes, and capture them by the use of the lasso. From Jackson Hole, where Howard Eaton obtained them, they were hauled over the rugged Teton Mountains to Victor, Idaho ; thence they were taken by rail to Butte, to Wadena, to Park Rapids and Itasca State Park. While being driven through Teton Pass,

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