Posted by Joe Cimoch [172.68.65.225] on Monday, January 08, 2018 at 14:23:55 :
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Deputy Game Warden Orville Mayer drops off hay for deer herds near the east end of Casper Mountain, January 1949. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department began emergency feeding of deer, elk and antelope early in January and continued through early March. Casper College Western History Center.
The Notorious Blizzard of 1949, "started on Sunday Jan. 2, 1949 and proved the worst of the century. The first storm would be followed by two more months of snow and bitter cold. The National Weather Service eventually reported 12 people dead in Wyoming after the first storm." ..."Operation Haylift began on January 28, when the U.S. Air Force flew a total of about 550 tons of hay from Marshall Field, Kan., and La Junta, Colo., to Casper. Feed was also delivered to other parts of Wyoming, with bales sometimes dropped on the range near stranded cattle and sometimes delivered to towns for convoy to isolated ranches. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department began emergency feeding of deer, elk and antelope in early January and continued through the first part of March. About 21,000 animals were given hay, cottonseed cake and alfalfa pellets. Sometimes hay bales were delivered on a toboggan that men pulled by hand because roads were impassable for vehicles. Game birds were also fed corn and small grain."
Read more about the blizzard of 1949 in the following article by Rebecca Hein.
https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/notorious-blizzard-1949
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