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Press Release, Emergency Hunt in the Selway Game Preserve, 26 August 1937 Item Info
- Title:
- Press Release, Emergency Hunt in the Selway Game Preserve, 26 August 1937
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1937-08-26
- Description:
- This press release issued in August of 1937 is meant to attract hunters to the Selway Game Preserve for a special emergency hunt to last from the beginning of September to the end of November of that year. The release attempts to entice hunters by describing the game preserve as extremely primitive providing the hunter with an unprecedented opportunity for real pioneering sport. The hunt was organized in response to the explosion of elk that had begun to damage winter grazing areas.
- 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- Unpublished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:
- Press_Release_Selway_Emergency_Hunt_08-26-37
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Press Release, Emergency Hunt in the Selway Game Preserve, 26 August 1937", The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness History Project, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/sbw/items/sbw184.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/