Report on Condition of Elk in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1911 . ourse is thenretraced or paralleled and the hay is thrown out in small quantitiesat short intervals. This method insures a fair share of hay to mostof the animals, large and small. The latter part of the afternoon isconsidered the best time for feeding the elk, since they are thenfortified for the night. One of the results of feeding is that theanimals become extremely tame, especially when approached only invehicles or on horseback. This familiarity, however, is quickly lostwhen the feeding is discontinued, and within a few weeks
Report on Condition of Elk in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1911 . ourse is thenretraced or paralleled and the hay is thrown out in small quantitiesat short intervals. This method insures a fair share of hay to mostof the animals, large and small. The latter part of the afternoon isconsidered the best time for feeding the elk, since they are thenfortified for the night. One of the results of feeding is that theanimals become extremely tame, especially when approached only invehicles or on horseback. This familiarity, however, is quickly lostwhen the feeding is discontinued, and within a few weeks those whichate freely from the hand of their benefactors become as wild as is supposed by some that the feeding during past years has causedthe animals to seek the region earlier, and it is a fact that theiradvent in tin4 autumn of 1910 was sooner than usual, but probablythis resulted from the weather conditions rather than from the factthat they had been fed during the previous winter. Bui. 40, Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. of Agric u ture Plate I- 9 Z £ < - Q_ = o <2 co £ z ° * 0 _l ^ L±J s DISTRIBUTION/ OF ELK. 15 LIFE HISTORY OF EN SUMMER. The elk which winter in the Jackson Hole region come from theGros Ventre and other ranges to the eastward, and from the moun-tains lying between Buffalo Fork of Snake River and YellowstoneLake. It has been popularly supposed that most of the Jackson Holeelk summer in the Yellowstone National Park, but in reality aboutfour-fifths of them breed and spend the summer entirely south of thepark boundaries and therefore within the State of Wyoming. Ofthese probably the majority summer north of Buffalo Fork in the Stategame preserve, but large numbers remain in summer in the Gros VentreRange and in the mountains about the tributaries of Gros Ventre few calve and remain all summer among the foothills and buttes closeto the valley, even as low as 7,000 feet. Some summer along the eastside of the Teton
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