. Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana. Montana Fish and Game Commission; Game protection; Wildlife conservation; Fisheries. voti Moose in Montana are quite widely scattered throughout the mountainous portions of the state. They lack the gregarious habits of the elk and are therefore seldom found in groups numbering more than three or four individuals. The more im- portant moose ranges are located in the Big Hole- crop) Bull moose ieeding- in a lliffh mountain Lake Abundance. (Bottom) Meadow at lower elevation. Dead willows indi- cate heavy winter use. Wise River
. Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana. Montana Fish and Game Commission; Game protection; Wildlife conservation; Fisheries. voti Moose in Montana are quite widely scattered throughout the mountainous portions of the state. They lack the gregarious habits of the elk and are therefore seldom found in groups numbering more than three or four individuals. The more im- portant moose ranges are located in the Big Hole- crop) Bull moose ieeding- in a lliffh mountain Lake Abundance. (Bottom) Meadow at lower elevation. Dead willows indi- cate heavy winter use. Wise River area, the headwaters of Rock Creek south of Phillipsburg, portions of the Bitterroot range, the North Fork of the Flathead River drain- age, and the ranges north and west of Yellow- stone Park. The moose ranges lying north of Yellowstone Park have been designated as the Hellroaring- Slough Creek Unit. The following is a summary or short digest regarding the findings resulting from wildlife investigations that have been car- ried out within this unit. Yellowstone National Park has served as a nucleus for the protection of moose and from there they have spread into the Asbaroka Primitive Area, the Gallatin, Tom Miner Basin, and other adjacent ranges. The Slough Creek, Buffalo and Hellroaring drainages, an area of approximately 183,000 acres which lies adjacent to the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park in the Ab- saroka National Forest, contains a heavy popula- tion of these comparatively rare animals. During the winter of 1941-42 an extensive survey of this and other areas was made, and throughout the summer of 1942 an intensive study was continued in the Slough Creek-Buffalo-Hellroaring Unit alone. For years this wilderness tract, with an abun- dance of natural forage and marshy terrain, was highly desired by moose. About 1925 they be- gan to be seen in large numbers, and by 1935 they had increased to such an extent that the principal forage plant, the willow, was b
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