The Park County News 01/25/1962 Livingston, MT speaking to the subject reducing elk herds in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone. Elk are shot and hung on racks until meat plants pick up carcass or individuals who purchases an elk pick up their animal. This elk reduction was opposed by Mel Stonehouse, Roy Coleman and Ned Frost of Cody who brought a lawsuit.

A letter from Jack Richard to Senator Joe Hickey speaking to a proposed bill by Senator Hickey to halt Elk slaughter in Yellowstone. Jack expresses to the Senator that Yellowstone can only support so many elk and there are 2 sides to the story.

An article by Charles Piersall of Casper that speaks to land issues in Wyoming dating back to the decades of cattle interest and the fact that the BLM operated early on under archaic, and special interest rules conceived by privileged grazing interest.

Letter from the Wyoming Conservation Association speaking to the over population of elk in Yellowstone and demands to let hunters hunt in the National Park.

Multiple articles back and forth from Jack Richard to Wyoming Game and Fish speaking to Jack being beat up by pro-parkers, anti-park stooges, and anyone who wants to understand the facts. There are discussions about trapping elk and transporting them to other parts of Wyoming. It is a big mess with truths, half-truths, conjecture all mixed together.

Steve Jacoletti Game and Fish Commissioner has questions to Jack who wrote a local article (Cody Enterprise) that got much more than local attention.

Billings gazette article speaks to Elk Action is delayed until Jan. 10th.

Billings Gazette article from 1962 that speaks to a Cheyenne Judge ruling on lawsuit brought by 3 Cody outfitters to grant an injunction against killing elk in Yellowstone.

Article wants hunters to be able to go into Yellowstone and help reduce overpopulation of elk.

Cody Enterprise article Jan. 25, 1962 with 3 articles on killing Elk in Yellowstone, one article for hunting one article asking for study and one article stating commission is going ahead with elk killing. Article claims Yellowstone Park is a natural place for unnatural animals.

Senator Joe Hickey of Wyoming introduced a bill seeking to stop the killing of elk in Yellowstone National Park.

Article about Yellowstone stopping the shipment of harvested elk to Ft Peck Indian reservation after delivery driver was caught drinking in Livingston MT.

Secretary of Interior Udall asked Montana to have a special elk season north of Yellowstone National Park, Billings Gazette article.

Billings Gazette article 01/25/1962 says the injunction brought by 3 outfitters from Cody, Wyoming was dismissed.

Billings Gazette article 01/29/1962 says 5,000 elk must be killed because they are over grazing land in Yellowstone.

Cody Enterprise article 01/18/1962 that speaks to Jack Richard’s photos and story accompanying rangers charged killing 5,000 elk to reduce the herd in northern part of Yellowstone.

Press release from Yellowstone Park dated 11/14/1961 stating the reduction in elk herd for Yellowstone will need to occur again in 1962.

Yellowstone Chief park Naturalist writes an article why allowing public hunting in Yellowstone is a bad idea. A descriptive piece that narrates pictures taken by Jack Richard.

Cody Enterprise article 01/21/1965 talking about elk trapping 3 years after the controversy of 1962.

Official record of Elk Reduction 1962-63 in Yellowstone Park. Eight-page listing of everyone involved in Inter-Agency Cooperative Elk Management Meetings.

Park County News (Livingston MT) article about wild game in Yellowstone Park. Jack Richard photos.

Park County News (Livingston MT) 12/28/1961 speaks to an article about Horace Albright former Y.P. superintendent from Lawrence Rockefeller in the Saturday evening Post.

The Park County News (Livingston MT) issue dated 11/30/1961 talks about thousands of elk but no solution as to who is right or wrong on the need to keep the herd within grazing limits.