Research Paper Elk And Domestic Sheep Interactions In A North Central Utah Aspen Ecosystem United States Department Of Agriculture December 1996 PDF Download

Excerpt from Elk and Domestic Sheep Interactions in a North-Central Utah Aspen Ecosystem At the onset of glacial recession, elk moved south ward and eastward into the rest of North America and became extinct in Alaska probably due to vegetational changes (grassland displacement by forests and the development of permafrost) caused by receding gla ciers (bryant and Maser Seton (1927, in Bryant and Maser 1982) estimated there may have been 10 million elk in North America before European settle ment. Bryant and Maser (1982) reported Rocky Moun tain elk were originally distributed over most of Utah, with the exception of extreme southern and south western Utah. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.