Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-09
STOCKMEN SEEK
PERMIT TO OPEN
GAME PRESERVE
State Commission to Consider
Request for Establishment
Antelope Domain.
Tribune's Helena Bureau)


+ Helena, Aug. Sat the next meeting
of the Montana fish and game com
mission to be held at Bozcman. August
16. will be taken up the subject of the
granting of a permit to Wallis Huide-
koper. manager of the big American
ranch at Wallis. of Il permit to estab-
lish and maintain a private preserve for
antelope.
Mr.. Huidekoper has applied to the
commission by letter for such g permit
and as he is one of the leading livestock
men of the state. a man Of high prin-
ciple. a great lover of wild animals and
whose object is merely the preserva-
tion of the fast disappearing antelope,
it is very likely that the permit will be
granted.
Has Bison Herd
Mr.. Huidekoper. who was formerly
president of the Montana Stock Grow
ers' association. from which office he
retired a little over a year ago. OPP
crates a very large stock ranch on the
American fork Of the Musselshell river.
east Of the Crazy mountains. in the
northern part of Sweet Grass and the
southern part of Wheatland counties.
He already has a buffalo preserve on
biS iohitI "lIttt uV INV iIoiIthibS u
small herd of these animals.
In his letter to State Game Warden
{. A. Jakways. he says he has made
a study Of wild animals for many years.
formerly in Dakota and for the past Is
years on his ranch east of the Crazy
mountains. He is one of the early
members of the American Bison society
and says he has a small herd of his
WI at his ranch. which he keeps under
a woven wire fence in a good sized
pasture.
Many Are Killed
He writes that the American Bison
society has turned its attention 70 the
antelope question and has recently
started a herd in a middle western
state. getting the nucleus for the herd
from Canada.
Mr.. Huidekoper writes that when he
first came to his present ranch there
were great numbers of antelope but
that yearly they have become less in
numbers. due to their being killed off
by the farmers during the winter
months. He says the antelope breed
and have their young on his ranch.
where they stay up to late in the fall,
when they go to the lower country to
the east and about half never come
back. Where there were 100 antelope
~ years ago lneTe are DTObaDtN only
10 now and the fate of these is plainly
seen.
He states he has tried to hold the
antelope on the ranch through the
winter for protection but without sue
cess. and he fears that these. the most
beautiful of the plains animals, are
doomed.
Sportsmen to Meet
He suggests that if granted a permit
by the game commission he will en-
deavor to get enough antelope TO start
a small herd, which he will %confine
in his buffalo pasture. where they will
live and grow and do well.
Along with other matters this will be
taken up at the next meeting of the
commission Mt BoZeman. It is expected
by Mr. Jakways that several members
of the commission will 60 from Boze-
man to Ennis to attend the annual
meeting of the Sportsmen's associa-
ton. August II. IS and 10.
Quite a program has been prepared
for this meeting by the local committee
and by NJ. s. Carpenter. secretary of
the association, which will include dem !
onstrations of fly and bait casting, clay
targets. rifle and pistol events and
an unusual exhibition of photographs
OF Montana wild life.