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Memorandum to Regional Forest Office, Intermountain Region, Missoula, MT Item Info
- Title:
- Memorandum to Regional Forest Office, Intermountain Region, Missoula, MT
- Creator:
- Murray, T. B.
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1937-03-02
- Description:
- This memorandum written in 1937 demonstrates some of the early problems faced by the forest service in managing large populations of wildlife over a vast territory. As previous reports have done, this document proposes employing hunters and trappers to kill large predators, like coyote and cougar, but it also draws attention to a more complex problem, the overuse of winter grazing areas by elk, which have begun to drive out and endanger other large game. In a fascinating moment, the author begins to compare the elk population to human populations in large city centers, drawing an analogy between the two in order illustrate the dangers of natural resource depletion.
- Subjects:
- Wildlife
- Location:
- Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (Idaho and Mont.)
- Latitude:
- 46.116667
- Longitude:
- -114.933333
- Publisher:
- Unpublished
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/
- Source:
- Unknown
- Source Identifier:
- Biological_Survey_Memorandum_03-02-37
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Memorandum to Regional Forest Office, Intermountain Region, Missoula, MT", The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness History Project, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/sbw/items/sbw153.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/