The Olympic Wildlife Problem / Field Survey and Recommendations

Sumner, Lowell

The objectives of the present survey were similar to those of the recent Saguaro National Monument study (February 5, 1951): 1. Obtain facts as to the true members of predators, elk, and other game animals, and their relations to one another, by following their tracks in the snow. 2. Obtain facts as to the condition of the elk and deer forage because of its effect on the numbers of the animals and their movements across the park boundaries. 3. Promote better local public relations by explaining the Service's wildlife policies and aims and the benefits that these should bring the local communities; secure the cooperation of local sportsmen and state biologists in joint field trips, since the facts with regard to actual conditions in the park are judged to be more eloquent and convincing than words. 4. Draw up a study program for providing all the answers needed by the Service in outlining - and securing support for - the present and future wildlife policies. 5. Check on the results to date of opening the previously mentioned access routes to hunters; review on the ground similar proposed access routes that had been worked out by this Service for future application, if needed, in the Queets and Ocean Strips.