Montana Wild Life, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Montana Wild Life, Vol. 2: The Official Publication of the State Fish and Game Commission, March, 1930Divide and then known as the 'ceded strip, was probably the greatest hunt ing area in Montana. This area was a great mountain sheep and grizzly bear country and yearly sportsmen from New York and London availed themselves of these conditions and, guided by Jack Munroe, who still lives in Montana, al ways got their big horn and grizzly. Today under Park supervision this same area still abounds with wild life.The mountain sheep, wildest and shy est of them all, when this country be came a park, has now through contact with man and having been hay fed at certain points during severe winters, become so tame that pictures of them are secured, although in remote parts of this park, where few ever travel, mountain sheep are apparently as shy and wild as ever.The first feeding of these sheep was not really from a point of necessity, but rather to tame by feeding and thus try to hold them close to a highway, where tourists could view them. This certainly has been accomplished, as any one who has visited this country can testify.During a fall visit to the park by Ernest Thompson Seton, well known author and naturalist, I was detailed to accompany Mr. Seton and remained with him for eight days. This was after the park season, and we camped close to the summit of the Continental Divide to be as close as possible to the moun tain goat, for Mr. Seton was at this time making a study of the goat.During our stay many wild life stories were told. It was then that Mr. Seton spoke about the increase of the mountain sheep and with the ih crease would come the necessity of feeding them. I spoke of the desire of the hotel company of having them fed, for the purpose of seeing if by contact and feed we could not hold them in the same area during the tourist season.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.