BOARD00198

• Board Meeting Date: 1/15/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. ELLIOTT:

off the eastern slope as far as big-game hunt-
ing is concerned in the years to come. Now
the western slope is about the only place we
can really look to to try and maintain big-
game herds, particularly elk which need a
considerable amount of range. If these 'I
ranges, whether they be private or publicly
owned, are continually diminished for other
USes, I don't think that we can stand up here
and say this is absolutely wrong; this is
what the people of this state want and say
this is good for the economy and health of
the state. As a game biologist I am not
going to stand up here and tell you that's
all wrong but as a game biologist and
ecologist, I am going to tell you that you
can't have big-game hunting and the recrea-
tion and all the attentive benefits that have
gone along with this in the past years in the
same proportions that you have enjoyed in the
past. I think this is just a foregone con-
clusion.

So our purpose here is to attempt to
reserve whatever big-game ranges there are in
the state and if they can be improved we want
to improve them and if they are damaged we want
mitigation for them. That's our business.
That's why we are here."

"What I am trying to suggest is that
there is multiple use for these areas and
there ought to be multiple assumption of
financial responsibility. I'm not arguing
because the people who live in the community
can argue it better than I can. But in read-
ing this report last night, I was struck by
the investment and the burden. I just thought
at least I'd like to get a little better
picture of What the problem was. II

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"I'd like to be able to come up with a
figure, Mr. Chairman, that would tell you and
others more precisely what a big-game animal
is worth. Now an elk may not be worth $5.00