, 1926-09-01
STATE GAME COMMISSION
CHANGES BOUNDARIES
New Preserves in Sunlight-Horse
Creek Closed and Shoshone
Reservoir Opened to Ducks
and Geese

According to notices which were
received this week, the state game
and fish commission. which met at
Cheyenne on July 9Th, made some
very definite changes in the game
preserve boundaries in Park coun-
ty which will be of more than or
binary interest to local hunters and
guides The boundary lines of the
Shoshone game preserve were en-
larged to include the Carter Noun
tain preserve, and the north boun-
dairy was changed so as to throw
open a small area north and east
of Bear creek and the Yellowstone
park OIL Northfork. The Horse
creek watershed, where the whole
sale killing of elk always occurs
during a hard winter, was closed,
and several changes were made in
the boundaries of the Hoodoo game
preserve, and a new closed territory
provided in the Sunlight country.
Ducks and geese may now be hunt
ed on the Shoshone game preserve.
This change was made due to the
fact hat the protection afforded
the bird life on the Shoshone re-
serve made them a menace to the
fish.
The Shoshone game preserve is
now described as beginning at a
point where Bear creek intersects
the Yellowstone park line, thence
down Bear creek to its mouth on
Northfork, thence up Northfork to
the mouth of Red creek; thence in
a southeast direction through the
pass to the head of the west fork
of G%rinnell creek; thence down
Grinnell creek to the Yellowstone
park road; thence due east to the
divide between Sweetwater and
Horse creeks; thence north and
east, swinging around the head of
Horse creek to the divide between
Grizzly and Big Creeks, and down
the divide to where it intersects
with the east boundary of Shoshone
forest; thence following the east
boundary of Shoshone forest in a
south and easterly direction to
where 1t crosses the Greybull river;
thence up the Greybull river to
Eleanor creek; thence VI Eleanor
creek to the divide; thence along
the divide around the head of Boul-
der creek to Needle mountain;
thence west to the mouth of Fall
creek; thence up Fall creek to the
Absaroka divide; thence along the
divide to Yount's peak; thence
along the divide between the Vel
lowstone river and Thoroughfare
creek to Hawks Rest. thence in a
northwest direction to the nearest
point on Bridger lake; then around
the lake on the north and east side
to the outlet, and down the outlet
to the Yellowstone river; thence
down the Yellowstone river to the
park line, and following the park
line in an east and northern di-
rection to the point of beginning.
The Hoodoo game preserve is de-
scribed as beginning at the point
where Republic creek crosses the
Notwithstanding line; thence up
the creek to the Absaroka divide
and along the divide in a southerly
direction to its intersection with
the Yellowstone park; thence along
the park line north and the Mon
tana-Wyoming boundary east to the
point of beginning.
The new game preserve is to be
known as the Sunlight State Game
preserve and is described as be-
ginning at the mouth of Crandall
creek; thence up Crandall creek to
the mouth of Lodge Pole creek;
thence up Lodge Pole to the divide,
following the divide in a south
westerly direction to the head of
Spring creek; thence down Spring
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