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Yellowstone National Park - Elk in Yellowstone  - Photo, 1965-1968

 File — Box: MS89.10, Folder: 89.10.02
Identifier: Folder 89.10.02

Scope and Contents

Photo of Jack Anderson YNP Superintendent.

Outline for an article titled Wildlife Conservation in the National Parks.

Letter from National Wildlife Magazine asking Jack Richard for a photograph of the Yellowstone Elk herd in winter.

Letter to Senator Gale McGee dated 04/17/1967 from Jack Richard complementing the Senator on hearings held in Casper about YNP problems with elk herds in Yellowstone.

Letter to Jack Richard from John Good Chief Park Naturalist for YNP with comments on news coverage of hearings held in Casper concerning elk issues in YNP, letter dated 03/21/1967.

Letter from John Good YNP to jack Richard dated 03/29/1967 stating elk count was tough and telling Jack that when Bill Barmore gets his estimated herd figures there will be a press release.

Unknown newspaper article speaking to the elk herd problems in Yellowstone.

Article gave a brief background on herd sizes sine the 1880’s.

Press release dated 08/22/1967 that announced the Elk Management Plan for YNP.

Billings Gazette article dated 07/07/1967 announcing funding to help YNP elk herds.

Copy of Senate Hearings Control of Elk Population Yellowstone National Park Fiscal year 1968.

Copy of Billings Gazette article stating Gov. Tim Babcock and Gov. Stan Hathaway were for more private and state participation in the management of federal lands in both Wyoming and Montana.

Press release of Northern Yellowstone Elk Management Meeting dated 11/06/1968.

Wyoming Wildlife magazine dated 04/1968 with an article and photographs by Jack Richard about rounding up elk in Yellowstone Park, second article shows how Wyoming Game and Fish have invented a better elk trapping system.

Administration Policies for the National Park System dated 09/01/1967.

Denver Post Empire section dated 02/21/1965 showing Yellowstone’s Aerial Elk Roundup by Jack Richard.

Dates

  • 1965-1968

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Extent

From the Collection: 173.00 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Creator

Repository Details

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