Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1919 — YELLOWSTONE ELK HERD IS FACING STARVATION. [ARTICLE]

YELLOWSTONE ELK HERD IS FACING STARVATION.

New York, Dec. 11. —The famous elk herd in Yellowstone park, numbering 30,000 animals, faces extinction because of the heaviest snowfall in thirty years and the heavy slaughter of animals in Montana, where they have been driven in search of food, according to Robert S. Yard, executive secretary of the National Parks’ association. Five thousand animals already have been killed by hunters outside the park and their carcasses shipped to market in the present hunting season, which does not close until Christmas eve, Mr. Yard said. The National Parks’ association is conducting a campaign for the elks’ preservation and Mr. Yard declared that starvation faces the surviving animals unless large quantities of hay, for which no appropriation is at present available, can be distributed in their feeding grounds. The almost unprecedented heavy snowfall has cut off the usual food supplies. .